APPENDIX 24

SAMPLE ORDER PERMITTING EXPERT EVIDENCE

1. The parties have permission to call the following expert witnesses in respect of the following issues:

1.1 [one structural engineer each on the issue of the structural integrity of the bridge partially constructed under the contract dated [x] and made between [y] and [z] as more particularly identified in paragraph [aa] of the list of issues] …

1.2 [one forensic accountant each on the issue of the loss and damage (if any) arising from the termination of the contract dated [x] and made between [y] and [z] as more particularly identified in paragraph [ab] of the list of issues]…

2. The parties and / or the experts of like discipline are to are to confer (and meet to the extent necessary) with a view to:

2.1 agreeing the precise issues that the experts are to address;

2.2 agreeing the instructions that each party is to give to their respective expert; and

2.2 the materials that the experts are to base their opinions upon (whether by a common bundle or otherwise);

so that, so far as possible, the experts give opinions on the same issues, on the same instructions and on the same materials.