When is the deadline for expert's report in an action?
The catalogue records a 6 months period from The finish date fixed for the action. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- Period
- 6 months
- Trigger
- The finish date fixed for the action
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- Rule 55.03(1) itself - 'or by a deadline set by a judge'. Rule 2.03(1)(c).
- Backward-counted but expressed in MONTHS, so r 94.02(1) - which governs only 'a period of days in a Rule' - does not strip weekends or closure days. Compute six calendar months back from the finish date. Rollover is marked 'review' because r 94.02 supplies no rule for a month-period landing on a closed day and the safe practice is to file on the preceding open day, never later. The finish date this period runs back from is not a free choice: in an action a judge fixes it under r 4.16(6)(c) at no less than twenty days before the trial readiness conference date, which under r 4.16(6)(b) is itself no less than forty days before the first day of trial. Surface the finish date as a user-entered court-set date. Rule 55.07(4) is a limited escape: despite r 55.03(1), a JOINT expert's report may be filed any time before the finish date.