by Mark Tottenham BL | Oct 30, 2019 | Admissibility of expert evidence, Misconduct by experts
High Court: (a) dismisses appeal from decision of Fitness to Practice Committee of the General Medical Council that actions of a psychiatrist amounted to misconduct in that he accepted instructions in an FTP hearing concerning a paramedic when he was not an...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Oct 23, 2019 | Misconduct by experts
An Australian psychologist has been banned from acting as an expert witness and fined AUS$20,000 because of conduct in a family law case. He attributed traits of psychopathy to the father of a child without sufficient sufficient data or clinical evidence, and...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Oct 7, 2019 | Misconduct by experts
Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Ltd v Zafar [2019] EWCA Civ 392 (Court of Appeal, Sir Terence Etherton (presiding), 19 March 2019) In this case, the Court of Appeal held that the sentence of six months, suspended, was unduly lenient for an expert witness...
