Expert Evidence: Law & Practice (3rd Ed)

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

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