This article is based on a seminar paper given to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (East Asia Branch) Young Members’ Group in Hong Kong on 26 April 2017. The seminar was the latest in a series given by the author and two articles based upon them that were published in Asian Dispute Review in 2010 and 2012. (The Quantity Surveyor as Expert Witness) and 2012 (Expert Witnesses: Are Courts and Arbitral Tribunals Asking too much from Them? ). This article explores how things have changed in the last five years or so, since the introduction of the various protocols following changes to the Rules of the High Court (RHC) of Hong Kong and the adoption of the Code of Conduct for Expert Witnesses at Appendix D of the RHC.
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