Expert Evidence in UK Law
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Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings
In its 2011 report Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings in England and Wales (Law Com No. 325), the Law Commission recommended that the admissibility of expert evidence in criminal proceedings s...
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Document-Making Analysis as Expert Evidence
While the text in documents or their authorship is frequently disputed in court, it is rare for the actual writing behaviour to be examined as one of the facts in issue. Because the method of analy...
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Expert Evidence and the Intoxicated Offender*
This paper considers the role of the expert witness in cases where people charged with criminal offences allege that they were grossly intoxicated when the act in question was committed. Expert evi...
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Court Scrutiny of Expert Evidence: Recent Decisions Highlight the Tensions
Recent decisions of the Courts of Appeal in England and Northern Ireland in Dallagher and O'Doherty highlight the risks of error which flow from the current lax standards of English law relating to...
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No More Laissez Faire? Expert Evidence, Rule Changes and Reliability
The apparent link between miscarriages of justice in prosecutions involving expert evidence and the level of training provided to the legal profession (the Bar in particular) and the judiciary in r...
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Expert Evidence and Medical Manslaughter: Vagueness in Action
This article examines the reliance placed on expert evidence in prosecutions of health professionals for gross negligence manslaughter, where juries must decide whether conduct goes beyond civil ne...
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