EXPERT WATCH 58: SHOULD A DEFENDANT HAVE PERMISSION TO RELY UPON A NEW EXPERT WHICH WOULD LEAD TO THE TRIAL DATE BEING VACATED?

Here we have a case where a defendant applied, late in the day, for an expert in a different discipline to those that had reported to date. Further that application was heard a month before the trial date.  The judge had to consider whether developments in the case justified new evidence at this sta...