Concurrent Evidence in the Kilmore East Bushfire Proceeding (2016)

This paper, published 13 April 2016, the third in a series on the management of expert evidence during the Kilmore East bushfire proceeding, considers the use of the concurrent evidence procedure. During this case, the largest class action in Victoria’s history, the parties and the Court were confronted with challenging factual issues that generated a substantial amount of expert evidence. The volume and complexity of this evidence led to the adoption of more innovative methods of managing expert evidence, including hearing the evidence concurrently at trial. This paper considers whether the adoption of the concurrent evidence procedure usefully contributed to the trial.

Concurrent Evidence in the Kilmore East Bushfire Proceeding (2016)