(1) The court may direct a meeting of expert witnesses of like speciality.
(2) The court may specify the issues which the expert witnesses must discuss.
(3) The contents of the discussion between the expert witnesses must not be referred to at the trial unless the parties agree.
(4) The meeting may take place in person, over the telephone or by any other suitable means.
(5) After the meeting, the expert witnesses must prepare for the court a statement of any issue within their expertise on which they —
(a) agree; and
(b) disagree, with their reasons for disagreeing.
(6) Instead of, or in addition to such statement, the court may direct that the expert witnesses prepare an agreed statement of the basic 'science' which applies to the matters relevant to their expertise.
(7) The statement referred to in paragraph (6) must be as short as practicable.