The judicial assessment of expert evidence / Déirdre Dwyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dwyer, Déirdre M. (Déirdre Marie), 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidence, Expert--Great Britain.

Evidence, Expert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 435 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Justice systems increasingly rely on expert evidence. We are therefore obliged to justify the courts' ability to assess this evidence, especially when the courts must resolve disagreements between experts or address possible bias. By reintegrating contemporary evidence theory with applied philosophy, Deirdre Dwyer analyses the epistemological basis for the judicial assessment of expert evidence. Reintegrating evidence with procedure, she also examines how we might arrange our legal processes in order to support our epistemological and non-epistemological expectations. Including analysis of the judicial assessment of expert evidence in civil litigation (comparing practice in England and Wales with that in the United States, France, Germany and Italy), the book also provides the first detailed account of the historical development of English civil expert evidence and the first analysis of the use of party experts, single joint experts and assessors under the Civil Procedure Rules.

Contents:

General epistemological issues

Expert evidence as a special case for judicial assessment

Making sense of expert disagreement

Non-epistemological factors in determining the role of the expert

Assessing expert evidence in the English civil courts : the sixteenth to twentieth centuries

Assessing expert evidence in the English civil courts today

The effective management of bias.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 388-412) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18957-8

1-281-98257-1

9786611982577

0-511-46441-X

0-511-57513-0

0-511-46284-0

0-511-46515-7

0-511-46208-5

0-511-46363-4

OCLC:

437089358