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Expert’s draft reports remain privileged

The common law rule that litigation privilege attached to expert reports obtained for the purpose giving legal advice to a party was unaffected by the limited exception in Part 35 of the Civil Procedure Rules by which the basis of the expert’s instructions was required to be disclosed.

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