Cultural expertise and litigation : patterns, conflicts, narratives / edited by Livia Holden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holden, Livia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forensic anthropology.

Forensic sociology.

Evidence, Expert.

Asylum, Right of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses the role of social scientists as a source of expert evidence, and is a product of their experiences and observations of cases involving litigants of South Asian origin. What is meant in court by ""culture,"" ""custom"" and ""law""? How are these concepts understood by witnesses, advocates, judges and litigants? How far are cross-cultural understandings facilitated - or obscured - in the process? What strategies are adopted? And which ones turn out to be successful in court? How is cultural understanding - and misunderstanding - pro

Contents:

South Asian Muslims and country expertise in the American immigration courts / Sylvia Vatuk

When South Asians marry trans-jurisdictionally : some reflections on immigration cases by an expert? / Prakash Shah

French law courts and South Asians litigants / Vronique Bouillier

Being on and being in : exposure and influence of academic experts in contemporary Denmark / Stig Toft Madsen

Witness statements and credibility assessments in the British asylum courts / Anthony Good

Honour killing?, or, Just plain homicide? / Roger Ballard

Life and law : advocacy and expert witnessing in the UK / Werner Menski

The case of S. : elaborating the right? narrative to fit normative/political expectation in asylum procedure in Italy / Tommaso Sbriccoli and Stefano Jacoviello

Expert report writing : professional commitments and legal outcomes / Livia Holden.

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-225) and index.

ISBN:

1-136-73521-6

1-283-15123-5

1-136-73522-4

9786613151230

0-203-81830-X

9780203818305

OCLC:

732067553