The IRR as False Witness

Thou shall not bear false witness.

The Social Scientist as Expert Witness

The Supreme Court decision on school desegregation 25 years ago-Brown v. Board o f ~ducatio-ushered in an era in which the law courts have carried an ever-growing share of the burden of social reform and policy change in this country. Even though several current members of the Supreme Court were appointed as "strict constructionists," and think of themselves as not in the business of setting so...

The Reliability of the Child as a Witness

ny discussion of children as witnesses has to consider several areas. These include the competence of a child and the degree of stress which may result to the child from being a witness in court. In recent years a body of literature has been developed on children's memory and some of this can be applied to children as witnesses. In the meantime, more research is needed to identify which age gro...

On a therapist serving as a witness.

Therapists (as expressed in codes of ethics) and lawyers (law professors aside) have divergent views about a treating therapist’s serving as a witness, be it as a fact witness or as an expert witness. It is discouraged in the standards of ethics of numerous professional organizations, including the American PsychologyLaw Society and the American Board of Forensic Psychology, the American Academ...

The psychiatrist as an expert witness in criminal court.

9?_92S2SHIS Academy stands this evening on the firm ground of progressive medicolegal thought on which it has stood 11 T zfor many years. Almost three-quarters of a century ago one of the keenest and most independent jurists this ,is25E5?S2~fl country has ever produced, Judge Edmonton, travelled across the river from New Jersey to appear on the platform of The New York Academy of Medicine and t...