Court Procedures Rules 2006

to ensure the court has control over the giving of expert evidence;

to restrict expert evidence in a proceeding to that which is reasonably necessary to resolve the proceeding;

to avoid unnecessary costs associated with parties retaining different experts;

to ensure expert witnesses are bound by a code of conduct;

if practicable and without compromising the interests of justice—to enable expert evidence to be given on an issue in a proceeding by a single expert agreed to by the parties or appointed by the court;

if necessary to ensure a fair trial of a proceeding—to allow for 2 or more experts to give evidence on an issue in the proceeding.