Are Expert Witnesses Whores? Reflections on Objectivity in Scholarship and Expert Witnessing

Are there impartial expert psychiatric witnesses?

An expert psychiatric witness is court appointed in about 30 states when the insanity defense is raised. 1.2 This defense evokes powerful prejudices. toward either condemnation or compassion, and has generated polemical debate.:1 Similarly, psychiatric opinion is required in procedures of competency to stand trial and sexual offenses of many varieties that stimulate feelings ranging from shock ...

WOMEN AS EXPERT WITNESSES 2 Women as Expert Witnesses: A Review of the Literature

Statistician expert witnesses in agreement on relative hazards

'If anticoagulants had been administered sooner, my client would not have died' was a central claim put to us, as statistician expert witnesses, by a Claimant's and Defendant's lawyers. To assist other litigants, and without identifying the specific case, we set out the study types that contribute to the evidence base, and their limitations. We then explain why it is difficult to adduce evidenc...

Expert witnesses: opinion and dogma are pitfalls in medical journalism as well as in reports.

dogma are pitfalls in medical journalism as well as in reports Professor David’s leading article provides a welcome summary of the Code of Guidance for Expert Witnesses in Family Proceedings. All paediatricians who undertake this type of work should be familiar with the Code of Guidance and have due regard to it. However, Professor David also goes on to express some highly personal opinions whi...

The effectiveness of opposing expert witnesses for educating jurors about unreliable expert evidence.

We tested whether an opposing expert is an effective method of educating jurors about scientific validity by manipulating the methodological quality of defense expert testimony and the type of opposing prosecution expert testimony (none, standard, addresses the other expert's methodology) within the context of a written trial transcript. The presence of opposing expert testimony caused jurors t...