ML19294B406

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Memorandum & Order Reminding Parties That Written Testimonies Shall Be Filed in Question & Answer Form.Expert Witness Shall Not Present Prof Objectivity Except During Counsel Cross Examination or ASLB Questioning
ML19294B406
Person / Time
Site: 07002623
Issue date: 02/20/1980
From: Mark Miller
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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NUDOCS 8002280307
Download: ML19294B406 (2)


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MEMORANDUM CONCERNING WRITTEN AND EXPERT TESTIMONY (February 20, 1980)

Counsel and parties are reminded that all written testimony shall be filed in question and answer form.

This Q. ana A. format makes it easier for the Board to consider and rule _upon various objections to.vidence.

It also serves to remind the witnesses that it is their own sworn testimony that they are preparing, not a script written by others or a partisan brief.

Exper". witnesses planning to present opinion evidence should also be reminded by counsel before they testify that they are not advocates, and that they should retain their professional objectivity during cross-examination by counsel or questioning by the Board.

Differing views by their colleagues or peers shoulc be freely and voluntarily acknowledged, with appropriate explanations of the resolution of differences of opinion.

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. Th'ese suggestions are made in advance of hearing, and they are of general applicability to trial-type proceedings.

We do not intend to imply any previous departures from these principles, and no such inference should be made in this proceeding.

It is so ordered.

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Yt dh, Marshall E. Miller, Chairman Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 20th day of February 1980/

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