The Expert Witness

Jean Graham-Hall; Gordon Smith

The principal aim of this classic book is to provide guidance and encouragement for the expert who is a newcomer to personal participation in legal proceedings in his or her professional role. "book is intended to fulfil: not to furnish grist for the intense analysis of recondite issues, but to give professionals without extensive experience of the adversarial way of resolving disputes a practical introduction to the problems which they are likely to face, and to the ways in which they should prepare for and perform their various functions. As such it fills a real need." Lord Mustill, Foreword 

Contents

• Emergence of the Expert Witness
• Access to Justice Report
• Appointment of Experts
• The Written Report of the Expert Witness
• Outline of Civil Proceedings
• Outlines of Civil and Criminal Court Hearings
• Rules of Evidence
• Hearsay Evidence
• The Expert in the Witness Box
• The Expert Witness as Advocate
• Expert Witnesses in Arbitration Cases
• Liability of the Expert Witness
• Terms of Appointment
• The Psychiatrist and the Mental Health Review Tribunal
• The Integrity of the Expert Witness

A judge and a surveyor have collaborated to produce a book of real practical use: invaluable for any expert.