2 Jul 2020
The Minister of Education v Carter Holt Harvey Limited [2020] NZHC 1539
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 1539
- Court
- High Court
The Court declined to make broad pre-trial exclusions of defendant's causation and building-practice evidence because such evidence has legitimate probative value when used to support experts' primary opinions and pre-trial relevance rulings in complex multi-expert litigation must be approached cautiously; certain discrete parts of the Ministry's reply evidence that went beyond proper reply (notably parts of Mr Frazer's evidence and late testing in Mr Wutzler's reply) were excluded as not strictly in reply or as late supplementary testing; a Scion article was excluded under s129 as inadmissib…