# County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981, Rule 2B: Medical reports, maps, plans etc may be given in evidence

Extent: N.I.

(1) Unless [ the judge or district judge as the case may be] otherwise orders and subject to paragraph (2), [ any report or other accompanying or supplemental document served or disclosed pursuant to the provisions of Part III or rule 2D of this Order] or any map, plan, drawing, photograph or model produced pursuant to the provisions of Rule 2A by any party to proceedings to the other parties may be given in evidence without further proof at the hearing or an assessment of damages by the party who has disclosed or produced it.
(2) Any other party may, on giving sufficient notice to the party making the disclosure or production specified in paragraph (1), require the maker of any such [ . . .] report to give oral evidence or require any such map, plan, drawing, photograph or model to be proved, and in any such case paragraph (1) shall not apply.
(3) Where a medical witness or other expert witness is, unable to attend court to give oral evidence at the hearing or an assessment of damages [ the judge or district judge as the case may be] may direct that his written report or reports may be given in evidence or that any such map, plan, drawing, photograph or model may be admitted in evidence without further proof thereof, and in such case paragraph (2) shall not apply.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/24/chapter/1/rule/2B (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-24/chapter-1/rule-2B
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