High Court & Circuit Court Rules
The rules may require any party to a High Court or Circuit Court personal injuries action, to disclose to the other party or parties, without the necessity of any application to court by either party to allow such disclosure, by such time or date as may be specified in the rules, the following information, namely—
any report or statement from any expert intended to be called to give evidence of medical or para-medical opinion in relation to an issue in the case;
any report or statement from any other expert of the evidence intended to be given by that expert in relation to an issue in the case;
the names and addresses of all witnesses intended to be called to give evidence as to facts in the case;
a full statement of all items of special damage together with appropriate vouchers, or statements from witnesses by whose evidence such loss would be proved in the action;
a written statement from the Department of Social Welfare showing all payments made to a plaintiff subsequent to an accident or an authorisation from the plaintiff to the defendant to apply for such information;
and such other relevant information or documentation (as may be provided for by rules of court) so as to facilitate the trial of such personal injuries actions;
The rules provide for the imposition by the High Court, or the Circuit Court as the case may be, of a sanction for non-compliance with the requirement, including termination of an action, prohibition on a party from adducing such evidence as has not been disclosed without leave of the court, and penalties as to award of costs.…
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