Evidence to be disclosed
18.06 Evidence to be disclosed
(1) Except with the leave of the Court or the consent of the other parties, a party must not, except in cross-examination, adduce evidence from a medical expert on medical matters concerning a worker unless the evidence is disclosed in a medical report served in accordance with these Rules.
(2) If a copy of a medical report is served in accordance with these Rules, the medical report is admissible:
as evidence of the medical expert's opinion; and
(b) if the medical expert's oral evidence of a fact on which the opinion was based would be admissible – as evidence of that fact.
(3) A party is not entitled to object to the receiving of a medical report in evidence at an interlocutory hearing, directions conference, conciliation conference or prehearing conference.
Division 2 Non-medical expert evidence
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