Likeability and Expert Persuasion: Dislikeability Reduces the Perceived Persuasiveness of Expert Evidence [PDF]
With the use of expert evidence increasing in civil and criminal trials, there is concern jurors' decisions are affected by factors that are irrelevant to the quality of the expert opinion.
Mariam Younan, Kristy A. Martire
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Product Substitutability in Defining the Relevant Market and Expert Evidence: Comments on the Judgment of the Polish Supreme Court of 29 July 2020 (I NSK 8/19) [PDF]
In one of the court proceedings concerning a cassation appeal, brought against the decision of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), the Polish Supreme Court expressed in its judgment of 29 July 2020 (I NSK 8/19) a ...
Rafał R. Wasilewski
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Development and Forensic Application of EX20+30Y Kit
ObjectiveTo develop a multiplex PCR amplification system (EX20+30Y for short) of 19 autosomes, 30 Y-STR loci plus the gender indicator, and evaluate its forensic application value.MethodsWith the six-color fluorescence labeling technology, a multiplex ...
ZHOU Xu-ming, GAO Deng-xing, LI Fa-yuan
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The Judicial Assessment of ‘Expert Evidence’ in the United Kingdom’s Immigration and Asylum Chamber
This paper examines the role of cultural evidence submitted by anthropologists and social scientists to assist individuals seeking asylum in the United Kingdom.
John R. Campbell
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Challenges for expert evidence in the justice system of pakistan
Expert evidence is admissible under articles 59 and 164 of Qanun-e-Shahadat Ordinance, 1984 (Law of Evidence), in the courts of law in Pakistan. However, the enacted laws and judicial precedents are inadequate to help a trial judge to get an answer to ...
Nouman Rasool, Muzamal Rasool
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The Practical Criteria of Accuracy of Forensic Investigations in Statistical Values
The article presents a scientific and practical analysis of ensuring the accuracy of forensic experts’ opinions. It is shown that Russian substantive and procedural legislation needs improvements in the part of the inclusion of the criteria for assessing
I. A. Grigor’ev
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Explaining and trusting expert evidence: What is a ‘sufficiently reliable scientific basis’? [PDF]
Through a series of judicial decisions and Practice Directions, the English courts have developed a rule that expert evidence must have ‘a sufficiently reliable scientific basis to be admitted’.
Ward, Tony
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The prejudices of expert evidence
The rules and procedures regulating the admission of potentially unreliable expert evidence have been substantially weakened over the past several years. We respond to this trend by focusing on one aspect of the rules that has not been explicitly curtailed: unfair prejudice.
Chin, Jason +2 more
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This paper examines developments in the rules and procedures relating to adducing expert evidence in court proceedings. In so doing, the paper examines legislative requirements, what constitutes a person as an expert, how to determine who to appoint as ...
Jeremy Brand
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Interrogating the Role and Value of Cultural Expertise in Law
It is common for litigation to draw upon expert evidence to assist a judge to arrive at a balanced decision. This paper examines the role of one type of expert evidence submitted to courts, namely cultural expertise (CE), which provides information on ...
John R. Campbell
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