http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/ Reforming the law en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:51:31 +0000 http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/topic/difficulties-with-proposed-judicial-screening-of-expert-evidence#post-40 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:43:09 +0000 gilsonc 40@http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/ <p>This posting expresses more eloquently,efficiently and substantively the views I submitted to the Forum but Dr Dwyer and I hold the same view, albeit from different perspectives. I appreciate her fine analysis of judgments in the important cases in question and the realistic assessment of the operation of rules of evidence in American courts. I believe courts in the English jurisdiction can use their 'standard' reasoning to reach conclusions without resorting to rigid procedures that do not, in any event, guarantee that evidence is 100% reliable and the use of which might introduce even more problems. Learning from errors of the kind made in Clark and Cannings need only take the form of more care and close questioning of expert opinions that appear to decide cases on the basis of their evidence alone. The solution to the problem of expert evidence lies in courts taking more responsibility of their own for conclusions. </p> http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/topic/isoukas-accreditation-is-inappropriate#post- Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000 Anonymous @http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/ http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/topic/isoukas-accreditation-is-inappropriate#post- Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000 Anonymous @http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/ http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/topic/isoukas-accreditation-is-inappropriate#post- Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000 Anonymous @http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/ http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/topic/your-examples-of-unreliable-expert-evidence#post-26 Wed, 06 May 2009 17:07:08 +0000 Theodore Essex 26@http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/ <p>I have seen "experts" prepared to testify on numerous things that there was no basis for. Examples include the use of dolls in sex abuse allegations, profiling, and attributing physical qualities of genitaliy to abuse, before there were any studies of "normal". I have also had prosecutors attempt to introduce into evidence medical test results that were broad spectrum, rather than forensic. </p> http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/topic/isoukas-accreditation-is-inappropriate#post- Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000 Anonymous @http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/ http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/topic/isoukas-accreditation-is-inappropriate#post- Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000 Anonymous @http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/ http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/topic/isoukas-accreditation-is-inappropriate#post- Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000 Anonymous @http://www.lawcom.org.uk/lc-forum/