ABSTRACT
The fear and anticipation of the real event is always greater than the pain itself Being served with a subpoena to attend at court is really not half as unpleasant an event as the anticipation of it may seem. Examples of defective subpoenas include those which have not complied with the technical requirements such as layout, font size and margins. The principle of the case is that an expert witness can be forced by subpoena to reveal evidence the expert has given in a valuation of comparable premises if it is relevant to his valuation of the disputed property. The Court of Appeal decided that there was an underlying principle that no party had any property in the evidence of a witness of fact and that the expert could be compelled by the court to give evidence because the same principle applied to an expert witness.
