Courts are taking an increasingly interventionist approach to case handling and in the Land Court of QLD, the court is managing Expert Evidence and deciding what is admissable and what is not.
This can lead to evidence being discounted where experts have been asked to address questions that the court decides are irrelevant and outside the scope of the matters under consideration. Generally the court will decide relevance at the hearing, Recent cases have made use of CMEE as follows:
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Expert Evidence Case Managed by QLD Land Court
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Queensland court now using Case Managed Expert Evidence by way of a Convenor who is a designated Member or Judicial Registrar