Admissibility of expert opinion and certain expressions of non-expert opinion.
- 2-1152 3. Admissibility of expert opinion and certain expressions of non-expert opinion.
- (1) Subject to any rules of court made in pursuance of Part I of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 or this Act, where a person is called as a witness in any civil proceedings, his opinion on any relevant matter on which he is qualified to give expert evidence shall be admissible in evidence.
- (2) It is hereby declared that where a person is called as a witness in any civil proceedings, a statement of opinion by him on any relevant matter on which he is not qualified to give expert evidence, if made as a way of conveying relevant facts personally perceived by him, is admissible as evidence of what he perceived.
- (3) In this section "relevant matter" includes an issue in the proceedings in question.
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