On 26 April 1999, new Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) was introduced in the UK in response to Lord Woolf’s report on the civil justice system. Lord Woolf identified excessive cost, delay and complexity as the key problems facing the civil justice system. The role and use of expert evidence was identified as not only one of the two major causes of these problems, but was identified as the “subject that caused the most concern”. This was not surprising given that parties to litigation were all too often using too many experts, many of whom being not only superfluous to requirement but irrelevant to the issues in dispute …