Expert Evidence: Law and Practice

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Description
Much has changed in the five years since the publication of the third edition. In 2011 the Supreme Court swept away the immunity of experts from suit by the party instructing them: Jones v Kaney [2011] UKSC 13; [2011] 2 A.C. 398. This has led to a complete re-write of Chapter 14. In the same year the Law Commission published its report (No. 325) "Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings in England and Wales" Its principal recommendation was that the admissibility of expert opinion evidence in criminal courts should be placed on a statutory footing and that it should be admissible"only if it is sufficiently reliable to be admitted". This was to mean that expert opinion must be "soundly based" and that 'the strength of the opinion is warranted having regarded to the grounds on which it is based. The Law Commission proposed that the courts should follow a statutory checklist when assessing the reliability of expert opinion evidence.
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Contents
Part A : Introduction — The Principles and Development of Export Evidence
1.    Introduction
2.    Non-Opinion Expert Evidence
3.    Reliability
Part B : Pre-Trial Practice and Procedure
4.    Pre-Trial Procedure
5.    Single Joint Experts, Assessors and Experts Appointed by the Court
6.    Bias
7.    Privilege and Confidentiality
Part C : Evidence at Trial
8.    The Expert Witness at Trial
9.    The Form and Content of Expert Evidence
10.  Experts and Hearsay Evidence
11.   Evidence Produced by Machines, Devices and Other Apparatus
12.  The Evidential Value of Expert Evidence
13.  Costs and Fees
14.  Immunity
Part D : Methods of Proof
15.  Psychological and Psychiatric Evidence
16.  The Valuation of Land and Buildings
17.  Forensic Sciences and Techniques
18.  Actuarial, Accountancy and Market Research: Evidence with a Mathematical Element
19.  Proof of Foreign Law
Part E : Specific Tribunals
20.  Tribunals not Governed by the Strict Rules of Evidence
21.  Specific Commercial Jurisdiction
Part F : Fields of Litigation
22.  Court of Protection
23.  Medical Reports in Personal Injury Cases
24.  Construction Claim
25.  Intellectual Property
26.  Criminal Sentencing
27.  Drink/Driving Offences
28.  Obscenity
29.  Matrimonial and Other Proceedings Involving Children
Appendices
Index
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Author Details
Mark James MA (Oxon) Barrister
Tristram Hodgkinson LLB, LLM Barrister
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