This page is an unofficial LFoD record and is not legal advice. Verify the document against the official source before relying on it.

SB70: relative to disclosure of expert testimony in civil cases.

Bill details

Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.

Sponsors

Topics

Criminal justice and courts

Official links

SB 70 - AS INTRODUCED

2017 SESSION

17-0780

06/09

SENATE BILL 70

AN ACT relative to disclosure of expert testimony in civil cases.


ANALYSIS

This bill requires all expert witnesses to be disclosed, and all reports concerning their testimony to be filed, before any expert witness may be deposed.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0780

06/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

AN ACT relative to disclosure of expert testimony in civil cases.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Disclosure of Expert Testimony in Civil Cases; Sequence of Disclosures and Reports. Amend RSA 516:29-b, IV to read as follows:

IV. The deposition of any person who has been identified as an expert whose opinions may be presented at trial, and whose testimony has been the subject of a report under this section, shall not be conducted until after such report has been provided. No expert witness shall be deposed until all parties have disclosed their expert witnesses and any written reports required by this section have been issued.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.