Expert Evidence: Law and Practice, 3rd Edition

 Covering both civil and criminal proceedings, Expert Evidence  

• Provides comprehensive coverage ofexpert evidence in courts, tribunals,official enquiries and other proceedings, including arbitration
• Sets out general principles and deals with the application of those principles in specific context
• Provides guidance on pre-trial preparation of expert evidence
• Deals with every aspect of the expert witness in court
• Goes through methods of cross-examining experts
• Looks individually at areas such as forensic science, psychiatric evidence, valuation of land and buildings, and evidence with a mathematical element
• Discusses the rules that apply in specific fields of litigation, such as medical reports in personal injury cases, patents, construction claims, proceedings involving children and drunk-driving cases
• Looks at tribunals not covered by the strict rules of evidence
• Quotes in full all important statutory provisions and rules of the court

Coverage in this edition includes:

• Meadow v General Medical Council
• Reforms embodied in new Part 33 of the Criminal Procedure Rules on expert evidence (including the introduction of single joint experts and pre-trial expert discussions into the criminal process, both of which are significant and controversial changes to criminal procedure)
• A new chapter on bias
• A discussion of the impact of Lord Justice Jackson’s ‘Review of Civil Litigation Costs’
• New changes to Criminal Procedure Rules