Author: Paul Roberts Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 135156739X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 558
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Forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony play an increasingly prominent role in modern criminal proceedings. Science produces powerful evidence of criminal offending, but has also courted controversy and sometimes contributed towards miscarriages of justice. The twenty-six articles and essays reproduced in this volume explore the theoretical foundations of modern scientific proof and critically consider the practical issues to which expert evidence gives rise in contemporary criminal trials. The essays are prefaced by a substantial new introduction which provides an overview and incisive commentary contextualising the key debates. The volume begins by placingforensic science in interdisciplinary focus, with contributions from historical, sociological, Science and Technology Studies (STS), philosophical and jurisprudential perspectives. This is followed by closer examination of the role of forensic science and other expert evidence in criminal proceedings, exposing enduring tensions and addressing recent controversies in the relationship between science and criminal law. A third set of contributions considers the practical challenges of interpreting and communicating forensic science evidence. This perennial battle continues to be fought at the intersection between the logic of scientific inference and the psychology of the fact-finder‘scommon sense reasoning. Finally, the volume‘s fourth group of essays evaluates the (limited) success of existing procedural reforms aimed at improving the reception of expert testimony in criminal adjudication, and considers future prospects for institutional renewal - with a keen eye to comparative law models and experiences, success stories and cautionary tales.
Author: Paul Roberts Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1788111036 Category : LAW Languages : en Pages : 464
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Forensic science evidence plays a pivotal role in modern criminal proceedings. Yet such evidence poses intense practical and theoretical challenges. It can be unreliable or misleading and has been associated with miscarriages of justice. In this original and insightful book, a global team of prominent scholars and practitioners explore the contemporary challenges of forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony from a variety of theoretical, practical and jurisdictional perspectives. Chapters encompass the institutional organisation of forensic science, its procedural regulation, evaluation and reform, and brim with comparative insight.
Author: John Katz Publisher: ISBN: 9781988553320 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Expert Evidence in Civil Proceedings is a source work for civil litigators, civil litigation students, members of the judiciary and those who appear as expert witnesses. It offers a subject based analysis of issues arising from expert evidence being called in proceedings with each chapter standing alone as a complete discussion of a topic. The book captures the principles of expert evidence in a unique snapshot of the law with an eye on the avalanche of ongoing case law and developments. The text is a reference, a guide, and a tool for discussion and debate.
Author: Great Britain: Law Commission Publisher: The Stationery Office ISBN: 9780102971170 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 224
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This project addressed the admissibility of expert evidence in criminal proceedings in England and Wales. Currently, too much expert opinion evidence is admitted without adequate scrutiny because no clear test is being applied to determine whether the evidence is sufficiently reliable to be admitted. Juries may therefore be reaching conclusions on the basis of unreliable evidence, as confirmed by a number of miscarriages of justice in recent years. Following consultation on a discussion paper (LCCP 190, 2009, ISDBN 9780118404655) the Commission recommends that there should be a new reliability-based admissibility test for expert evidence in criminal proceedings. The test would not need to be applied routinely or unnecessarily, but it would be applied in appropriate cases and it would result in the exclusion of unreliable expert opinion evidence. Under the test, expert opinion evidence would not be admitted unless it was adjudged to be sufficiently reliable to go before a jury. The draft Criminal Evidence (Experts) Bill published with the report (as Appendix A) sets out the admissibility test and also provides the guidance judges would need when applying the test, setting out the key reasons why an expert's opinion evidence might be unreliable. The Bill also codifies (with slight modifications) the uncontroversial aspects of the present law, so that all the admissibility requirements for expert evidence would be set out in a single Act of Parliament and carry equal authority.
Author: Kevin Keasey Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119842565 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 261
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THE EXPERTS AND THE EVIDENCE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO STOCK INVESTING Explore and apply celebrated investing strategies with practical tools from an expert team of finance professors In The Experts and the Evidence: A Practical Guide to Stock Investing, a veteran team of finance researchers and practitioners delivers a one-of-a-kind explanation of how to use data and analytics tools to test and implement the philosophies and strategies of well-known investing experts. Combining a comprehensive discussion of the investment philosophies of renowned investors with rigorous testing and implementation, the authors provide a hands-on tool for starting and maintaining a diversified portfolio. Readers will also find: Quantitative explorations of popular investing strategies. Useful tools for systematically exploring different investment approaches. Discussions of value, growth, contrarian, portfolio, and factor investing, as well as technical analysis and advanced quantitative investing. An ideal resource for readers familiar with the basics of the financial markets and looking for a guide to a range of proven investment approaches, The Experts and the Evidence is also an essential read for advanced undergraduate and graduate students seeking a real-life informational and analytical system for the application of investment strategies.
Author: Alan D. Gold Publisher: ISBN: 9781552211700 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 275
Book Description
Contains all the principles and knowledge needed to expose bogus experts and junk science and to reduce inflated expert evidence to its proper valuation.
Author: Cecil C. Kuhne (III) Publisher: American Bar Association ISBN: 9781590317280 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 244
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The admission of expert witness testimony remains one of the most contentious, critical, and interesting aspects of modern-day litigation process. This book examines the role of the expert witness, focusing on taking depositions, expert qualifications, admissibility of testimony, attorney-client privilege, Daubert, rules of discovery and evidence, selecting and presenting experts, and direct examination of experts.
Author: Tom Nichols Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197763839 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 337
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"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309043468 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 169
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The Alberta clinical practice guidelines program is supporting appropriate, effective and quality medical care in Alberta through promotion, development and implementation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
Author: Paul Roberts
Author: Paul Roberts
Author: John Katz
Author: Great Britain: Law Commission
Author: Kevin Keasey
Author: Glenn R. Anderson
Author: Alan D. Gold
Author: Cecil C. Kuhne (III)
Author: Tom Nichols
Author: Institute of Medicine