Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 9. ARBITRATION · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Part 2. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION CODE

9-9-48. Appointment of experts.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, the arbitration tribunal:#
1. (1)
  May appoint one or more experts to report to it on specific issues to be determined by the arbitration tribunal; and#
2. (2)
  May require a party to give the expert any relevant information or to produce, or to provide access to, any relevant documents, goods, or other property for the expert’s inspection.#
(b)
Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, if a party requests or if the arbitration tribunal considers it necessary, the expert shall, after delivery of the expert’s written or oral report, participate in a hearing where the parties have the opportunity to put questions to the expert and to present expert witnesses in order to testify on the points at issue.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 9-9-48, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 961, § 1/SB 383.

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