584. Expert reports and evidence: admissibility and pre-trial disclosure.

584. Expert reports and evidence: admissibility and pre-trial disclosure.

Criminal Procedure (Volume 27 (2021), paras 1–442; Volume 28 (2021), paras 443–938) | Commentary

(iii)     Procedural Obligations of the Expert

An expert report1 is admissible as evidence in criminal proceedings whether or not the person making it attends to give oral evidence in those proceedings2, and may be admissible as admitted fact in summary form3. If it is proposed that the person making the report is not to give oral evidence, the report is admissible only with the leave of the court4.

The power to make Criminal Procedure Rules includes power to make,