{"id":48,"date":"2010-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fenchurchlaw.hostingsystems.co.uk\/sg\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/concurrent-evidence-for-expert-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:02:19","slug":"concurrent-evidence-for-expert-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fenchurchlaw.com\/en-sg\/concurrent-evidence-for-expert-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Concurrent Evidence for Expert Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This firm has made clear that it supports those parts of Lord Justice Jackson&#8217;s review of civil litigation costs (&#8220;the Jackson Report&#8221;) that are aimed at reducing the cost of civil litigation as a whole, whilst opposing those parts of the Jackson Report that are aimed at shifting the burden of what costs remain from defendants on to claimants (see our comments at: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2elzb39\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2elzb39<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->One recommendation aimed at reducing costs which is currently being trialled is the practice of more than one expert giving oral evidence to the court at the same time, known as concurrent evidence or, more colloquially, &#8220;hot tubbing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear at this stage whether the cost savings that will be made by the introduction of hot tubbing will justify the increased risk of a case collapsing due to a bad performance of an expert under pressure. The value of experts is, in our view, in their technical expertise, rather then their advocacy skills or their ability to outwit their counterpart in an artificially pressurised situation.<\/p>\n<p>Litigation is already the highest-risk form of dispute resolution available. The high risk nature of litigation is responsible, at least in part, for driving the increased popularity of alternative dispute resolution, and it is inevitable that any measures which further increase the risk inherent in litigation will inevitably disourage potential litigations from using the process.<\/p>\n<p>That being the case, we would question whether the proposed introduction of hot tubbing signals a loss of confidence in litigation itself. 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