Williamson v. Superior Court

*832Opinion

TOBRINER, J.

In this petition for writ of mandate plaintiff seeks to discover a report prepared by an expert employed by counsel for one of the defendants in the underlying personal injury suit. Defendant had originally intended to call the expert as a witness at trial, and hence, under the relevant statute and case law, the expert’s report would normally have been discoverable by plaintiff. In return for a codefendant’s promise of indemnification, however, the defendant who employed the expert subsequently withdrew him as a witness, This case therefore presents the question whether the…