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FEDERAL CIRCUIT AND FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA (FAMILY LAW) RULES 2021 - RULE 7.32

Conduct of trial with expert witnesses

    At a trial, the court may make an order in relation to the giving of evidence by expert witnesses, including an order that:

  (a)   an expert witness clarify the expert witness's evidence after cross - examination; or

  (b)   an expert witness give evidence only after all or certain factual evidence relevant to the question has been led; or

  (c)   each party intending to call an expert witness is to close that party's case, subject only to adducing the evidence of the expert witness; or

  (d)   each expert witness is to be sworn and available to give evidence in the presence of each other; or

  (e)   each expert witness give evidence about the opinion given by another expert witness; or

  (f)   cross - examination, or re - examination, of an expert witness is to be conducted:

  (i)   by completing the cross - examination or re - examination of the expert witness before another expert witness; or

  (ii)   by putting to each expert witness, in turn, each question relevant to one subject or issue at a time, until the cross - examination or re - examination of all witnesses is completed.

 



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