‘Admitting expert evidence very late in the day is a fraught business,’ writes Dr Chris Pamplin, editor of the UK Register of Expert Witnesses, in this week’s NLJ. He looks at the case of Shetty v Pennine Acute Hospitals as a case in point. There, the witness statement was ten months late
Pamplin also considers the more recent case of Lucinda Sanford v Russell, in which five experts were instructed and there were considerable delays in producing evidence.
He concludes the courts have come a long way since their ‘draconian stance’ while the civil justice reforms were bedding down, but notes they ‘continue to take a fairly dim view of delay’.
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