Expert witnesses

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

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 ...

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...

UK Supreme Court abolishes immunity for expert witnesses.

The United Kingdom Supreme Court has abolished the longstanding immunity expert witnesses have enjoyed from being sued for negligence, in a landmark judgment. By a five-two majority, the UK’s highest court has swept away the rule that negligence claims cannot be brought against expert witnesses over anything said in court or in the preparation of reports for court proceedings. The case was brou...

The Savage case. Week four: Mrs. Savage's expert witnesses.

Continuing her evidence last week to the Tower Hamlets District Health Authority inquiry into her competence, Mrs Wendy Savage was closely questioned by the obstetrician members of the panel about her management of the AU case, in which the baby died eight days after birth. Professor Howie asked Mrs Savage whether she felt she was justified in using oxytocin to stimulate labour in view of the r...