Full Description
The global nature of crime often requires expert witnesses to work and present their conclusions in courts outside their home jurisdiction with the corresponding need for them to have an understanding of the different structures and systems operating in other jurisdictions. This book will be a resource for UK professionals, as well as those from overseas testifying internationally, as to the workings of all UK jurisdictions. It also will help researchers and students to better understand the UK legal system.
Contents
1. Ethics and the Role of the Expert Witness. 2. The Impact of Case Law and Inquiries on the Role of the Expert Witness. 3. Miscarriages of Justice and the Role of the Expert Witness. 4. Expert Evidence in Scotland in Criminal Trials: A Defence Solicitor's Perspective. 5. The Role of the Expert Witness in the Northern Ireland Criminial Justice System. 6. Responsibilities and Obligations of the Expert Witness. 7. Emerging Science in Court. 8. Statistics and the Expert Witness. 9. The Expert Witness in the Inquisitorial Justice System Compared with the Adversarial Systems of the UK. 10. Forensic Science in U.S. Criminal Trials after Melendez-Diaz.
