18 Feb 2015
JARDEN v THE EARTHQUAKE COMMISSION & ANOR CIV-2013-409-1332 [2015] NZHC 204
- Citation
- [2015] NZHC 204
- Court
- High Court
The Court admitted the factual observations of Mr Johnstone as within his experience as a loss adjuster/claims investigator but excluded specific expert conclusions beyond that expertise and required correction of deficiencies in his supplementary statement; Mr Cowie's surveying and earthquake-damage experience qualified him to give expert evidence but specified passages addressing policy interpretation and certain report paragraphs were pre-emptively excluded; the recusal application was dismissed because the material did not establish a reasonable apprehension of bias and prior case law (Pe…