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By your leave? Cayman experts (maybe) need not apply
In the recent decision of State House Trust v Friend Media Technology Systems the Jersey Royal Court allowed an appeal against the Master's refusal to exclude an opinion from English counsel filed in support of a summary judgment application.
Commissioner Sir Michael Birt (who is also a Justice of Appeal of the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal) held that there was no requirement to obtain the leave of the court to obtain evidence from a single expert witness, but that in this instance the opinion was inadmissible, and used the occasion to call for the introduction of a rule equivalent to…
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