Expert Evidence: Law and Practice 5e

Expert Evidence: Law and Practice 5e

By Tristram Hodgkinson, Mark James

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Date: 27/04/2020

Code: 9780414074330

Sweet & Maxwell, UNITED KINGDOM

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Description

A comprehensive guide to the law, practice and procedure relating to the admission of expert evidence in courts, tribunals, official enquiries and other proceedings, including arbitration. It gives detailed guidance to those involved in the pre-trial preparation of expert evidence or the presentation or questioning of it in court.
  • Covers expert evidence in both civil and criminal proceedings
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Table of Contents

  • Part A: Introduction – The principles and development of expert evidence
    1. Introduction
    2. Non-opinion expert evidence
    3. Novel scientific ideas and techniques: the twilight zone
     
    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 jurisdictions
     
    Part F: Fields of litigation
    22. Medical reports in personal injury cases
    23. Construction claims
    24. Intellectual property
    25. Criminal sentencing
    26. Drink/Driving offences
    27. Obscenity
    28. Matrimonial and other proceedings involving children
     
    Part G: Expert evidence: The future
    29. The future
     
    Appendices

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