Victorian Consolidated Regulations

COUNTY COURT CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2018 - REG 33.08

    (1)     A defendant shall serve on each other party who has an address for service in the proceeding any hospital report or medical report (other than a hospital report or medical report served on or supplied to the defendant by another party)—

        (a)     which the defendant intends to tender or the substance of which the defendant intends to adduce in evidence; or

        (b)     which otherwise the defendant intends to use at the trial.

    (2)     Paragraph (1) does not require the defendant to serve on the plaintiff a medical report served on the plaintiff under Rule 33.06, but the defendant shall by notice to the plaintiff in writing identify any medical report so served—

        (a)     which the defendant intends to tender or the substance of which the defendant intends to adduce in evidence; or

        (b)     which otherwise the defendant intends to use at the trial.

    (3)     The defendant shall serve the hospital report or medical report and give any notice under paragraph (2) at such time as the Court directs.

    (4)     In this Rule "defendant" includes a third or subsequent party.