The Jackson reforms came into force on 1 April 2013. Though aimed primarily at personal injury litigation, the reforms will affect commercial litigation.
The technique of concurrent expert evidence (known as “hot-tubbing”) has also been introduced as an optional procedure to be adopted at the direction of the judge, i.e. whether or not the parties agree. The technique involves hearing evidence concurrently from the experts in a particular discipline, rather than having each expert give evidence and be cross-examined separately.
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