Commonwealth Numbered Regulations Commonwealth Numbered Regulations(1) If an expert prepares an expert's report, the report must:
(a) comply with any practice note dealing with guidelines for expert witnesses; and
(b) contain an acknowledgement at the beginning of the report that the expert has read, understood and complied with any practice note dealing with guidelines for expert witnesses; 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) contain an acknowledgement that the expert's opinion is based wholly or substantially on the expert's specialised knowledge referred to in paragraph (c); and
(h) set out the reasons for each of the expert's opinions; and
(i) be signed by the expert.
(2) Any subsequent expert report of the same expert on the same question need not contain the information in paragraphs (1)(b) and (c).