Expert Witness in UK Law
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Jones v Kaney
... ... … Thus the court, judge and jury, and the witnesses including expert witnesses are granted civil immunity. This is not just privilege for the ... ] QB 75 the Court of Appeal held that the immunity of an expert witness extended to protect him from liability for negligence in preparing a joint ... ...
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Kennedy v Cordia (Services) LLP
... ... ") ( SI 1999/3242 ), to employers' liability at common law, and to expert evidence in this field ... The accident ... He will be treated therefore as an expert witness." ... 21 Having dealt with objections to ... ...
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Meadow v General Medical Council
... ... first raises an important question of principle, namely whether an expert witness should be entitled to immunity from disciplinary, regulatory or ... ...
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R v Turner (Terence)
... ... The Appellant's credit as a witness was an important issue ... 4 After the Appellant ... said, "may be given by men of science within their own science." An expert's opinion is admissible to furnish the Court with scientific information ... ...
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Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
... ... In relation to the first ground, he based his decision primarily on expert evidence of medical practice, following the approach laid down by the ... It was described by Dr Philip Owen, an expert witness who gave evidence on behalf of the Board, as "a major obstetric emergency ... ...
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Maynard v West Midlands Regional Health Authority
... ... in Joyce v. Yeomans , supra , at p.556. Speaking of expert evidence, the learned Lord Justice made this comment: "There are ... Sometimes expert witnesses display signs of partisanship in a witness box or lack of objectivity. This may or may not be obvious from the ... ...
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R (Factortame Ltd and Others) v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (No 8)
... ... Swabey of Thomas Cooper described the position as follows in his witness statement. "…. the financial position of the Anglo-Spanish ... 9 An expert witness on the fishing industry was going to be essential, and Mr Swabey ... ...
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English v Emery Reimbold & Strick Ltd
... ... The trial had involved a stark conflict of expert evidence. The Judge had preferred the expert evidence of the defendants to ... factual dispute whose resolution depends simply on which witness is telling the truth about events which he claims to recall, it is likely ... ...
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Sidaway (A.P.) v Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudesley Hospital Health Authority and Others
... ... Mr. Falconer was not an available witness, having died before trial, and the medical records afforded no sure guide ... a partial paralysis. All the surgeons who were called as expert witnesses accepted that the risk of damage, though slight, was a real one ... ...
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National Justice Compania Naviera SA v Prudential Assurance Company Ltd (Ikarian Reefer)
... ... Cresswell Queen's Bench Division Evidence - duties of expert witnesses Responsibilities of expert witnesses Expert ... If an expert witness did not have expertise in a certain area or had insufficient information ... ...
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