Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106)

Marginal note:Expert conference

• 52.6 (1) The Court may order expert witnesses to confer with one another in advance of the hearing of the proceeding in order to narrow the issues and identify the points on which their views differ.

• Marginal note:Presence of parties and counsel

  (2) Subsection (1) does not preclude the parties and their counsel from attending an expert conference but the conference may take place in their absence if the parties agree.

• Marginal note:Presence of judge or associate judge

  (3) The Court may order that an expert conference take place in the presence of a judge or associate judge.

• Marginal note:Joint statement

  (4) A joint statement prepared by the expert witnesses following an expert conference is admissible at the hearing of the proceeding . Discussions in an expert conference and documents prepared for the purposes of a conference are confidential and shall not be disclosed to the judge or associate judge presiding at the hearing of the proceeding unless the parties consent.