The Court's Decision in T and Imperial College

The relevant rule was c pr 35 point four, which provides that no party may call an expert or put in evidence an expert's report without the court's permission. But mister justice stuart agreed with the defendant that that rule itself did not carry with it an plied sanction and therefore the rule three point nine test, and the denton three stage test, was not formally engaged. The applicable test was either, firstly, simply applying the overriding objective, or, alternatively, if the application was being made very late,. In a case called heiser and the islamic republic of iran, Mr Justice Stuart applied the hiser test to decide whether there was a good reason