by Mark Tottenham BL | May 5, 2021 | Duties of expert witnesses, Misconduct by experts
In Bux v The General Medical Council [2021] EWHC 762 (Admin) (31 March 2021), the High Court of England and Wales approved the decision of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal to erase the applicant’s name from the medical register. The applicant was a doctor who...
by Mark Tottenham BL | May 4, 2021 | Admissibility of expert evidence
The European Court of Human Rights has recently addressed the issue of expert evidence in the case of Yevstratyev v. Russia – 11620/17 (Judgment : Right to a fair trial : Third Section Committee) [2020] ECHR 906 (15 December 2020). The applicant had been charged...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Feb 12, 2021 | Admissibility of expert evidence
In a New South Wales corporate insolvency action, an expert report by a consultant of one of the plaintiff firms was admitted into evidence by the court. The report was by Martin Madden, a senior consultant in KordaMentha, one of the plaintiff firms in the insolvency...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Feb 1, 2021 | Examples of expert evidence, Tribunals, inquiries and parliamentary hearings
The cricketing body, the MCC, is to offer evidence to retain the ‘bouncer’ in cricket, as it would otherwise become a batsman-friendly game, it has been reported by the Daily Mail (who operate under the basis that its readers will understand what all of...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Feb 1, 2021 | Examples of expert evidence
A Chicago court has dismissed an appeal from a drugs conviction where a police officer gave evidence of the language of meth dealing, and ‘translated’ a number of text messages: “Some exchanges were not particular difficult to decipher while others...
