New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Expert conferral

Legal area

Court

20 Apr 2018

SCOTCHBROOK v SOUTHERN RESPONSE EARTHQUAKE SERVICES LIMITED [2018] NZHC 757

Citation

[2018] NZHC 757
Court

High Court

The Court ordered that experts must cooperate to produce a single joint expert report (allowing layering by discipline) and comply with the High Court Earthquake List Protocols because the parties had previously agreed a single joint report, experts had jointly inspected the site, and the Court was not satisfied that sequential discipline-specific reports would be more appropriate or efficient given the history and overlap of issues.
16 Mar 2017

KRISTINSSON v SOUTHERN RESPONSE EARTHQUAKE SERVICES LIMITED [2017] NZHC 456

Citation

[2017] NZHC 456
Court

High Court

Mr Cowie's fundamental expertise is surveying; in the interests of proper case management and efficient privileged expert conferral, engineers whose fundamental expertise is in engineering must be the participants in the joint conferral and joint report addressing causes of natural disaster damage and remedy. Mr Cowie may file his own report and include opinions within his surveying expertise, but he is excluded from the joint engineers' conferral and joint report. The Court amended the earlier direction to exclude Mr Cowie from the joint report and set a new deadline for filing the joint rep…