Expert witness reports

Expert witness reports follow a very specific format, which is quite different from the normal building inspection reports. This guide walks you through how they work.

Property tab

The property tab contains most of the selections that you’d see for other report types, but they’re optional - meaning if you don’t make a selection, they won’t appear on the report.

Findings

Each finding has two new fields -

• Rectification

• Estimate - important: this should be a numeric value, in dollars, excluding GST.

Summary tab

The fields in the summary tab (except for code of conduct) are all free text, but they’re designed to be used as a numbered list of items. Here’s how it works -

• Start each item with a number (eg. “1.1”).

• Tap the tab button twice. The tab button can be found on the left of screen just above the keyboard.

• Type the relevant text then tap return.

• Type the next number (eg. “1.2”) and repeat other steps.