Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

FEDERAL COURT RULES 2011 - RULE 23.13

  (1)   An expert report must:

  (a)   be signed by the expert who prepared the report; and

  (b)   contain an acknowledgement at the beginning of the report that the expert has read, understood and complied with the Practice Note; and

  (c)   contain particulars of the training, study or experience by which the expert has acquired specialised knowledge; and

  (d)   identify the questions that the expert was asked to address; and

  (e)   set out separately each of the factual findings or assumptions on which the expert's opinion is based; and

  (f)   set out separately from the factual findings or assumptions each of the expert's opinions; and

  (g)   set out the reasons for each of the expert's opinions; and

  (ga)   contain an acknowledgement that the expert's opinions are based wholly or substantially on the specialised knowledge mentioned in paragraph   (c); and

  (h)   comply with the Practice Note.

  (2)   Any subsequent expert report of the same expert on the same question need not contain the information in paragraphs   (1)(b) and (c).