31.25   Instructions to expert witnesses where conference ordered before report furnished

If a direction to confer is given under rule 31.24 (1) (a) before the expert witnesses have furnished their reports, the court may give directions as to:

(a)  the issues to be dealt with in a joint report by the expert witnesses, and

(b)  the facts, and assumptions of fact, on which the report is to be based,

including a direction that the parties affected must endeavour to agree on the instructions to be provided to the expert witnesses.