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| 'Hot-Tubbing' Makes its Way Into Civil Trials |
| I'm from the United States, home of "The Bachelor" -- so I know enough about "hot-tubbing" to know that, at its best, it doesn't involve old men and women sitting around pontificating about whether some molecular compound is strong enough to support a 10-story building or whether a particular type of fertilizer should be used on Bermuda grass soccer fields located in shady areas. In Australia, however, hot-tubbing of that sort is all the rage now in civil trials. As discussed on the Slaw blog, hot-tubbing is the phrase used to describe "a new method of presenting expert evidence at trial. Opposing experts testify in each other's presence, as members of a panel, and are questioned in each other's presence in front of the trier of fact." This system is also making inroads in the United Kingdom and Canada. In the U.K., a pilot trial of hot-tubbing will soon begin in Manchester, England. In Canada, the Federal Court Rules were recently amended to enable hot-tubbing (aka "concurrent evidence"). As discussed in a paper recently presented by the WeirFoulds law firm, hot-tubbing involves asking all of the experts to generally comment on the issues in the case and discuss their differences... |
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