The procedure known as ‘hot tubbing’ (‘concurrent evidence’ or ‘debate among experts’) has been adopted by the High Court in New Delhi for intellectual property disputes. The procedure is used for the examination of expert witnesses, so that the judge can engage with two or more experts at the same time for the purposes of understanding the technical issues in the case.
“Hot-tubbing in India is in nascent stage and the jurisprudence would evolve with time. It will not be a surprise if it might garner more praise in times to come, especially in the matters that involve issues of highly technical nature such as patents. With increasing popularity of hot-tubbing around the globe, we believe that hot-tubbing in the Indian judicial system would also help in achieving its intended goal of reducing time, cost and stress involved in complex litigation.”
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