Some relief for expert witnesses

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Attorneys' requests for complete tax records from opposing expert witnesses: some approaches to the problem.

As part of an impeachment attempt on cross-examination of opposing expert witnesses in trial or deposition, the cross-examining attorney may request the complete tax records of the expert. It is widely believed that expert witnesses may be expected to express opinions that favor the parties who engage them and who pay their fees. Theoretically, the purpose of this request is an attempt to paint...

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 ...

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...

Commentary: is the plot thickening for partisan forensic expert witnesses?

Knowledge of the past has a powerful way of clarifying the challenges of the present. Dr. Weiss enables the reader to exploit this phenomenon as it applies to the important perennial struggle of the expert witness for objectivity.