Where a party provides witness statements to an expert who forms opinions based on their contents and serves the resulting report, it is indefensible to claim privilege over the underlying statements. Experts must refer to clearly expressed assumptions of fact rather than being asked to trawl through witness statements. Loss of tactical advantage from pre-trial disclosure of such material is unlikely to constitute substantial injustice sufficient to warrant leave to appeal an interlocutory order.
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