Déirdre Dwyer

The Judicial Assessment of Expert Evidence

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Produktbeschreibung

Deirdre Dwyer examines how a court can decide when to accept an expert's opinion, focusing on English civil justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 825g
• ISBN-13: 9780521509701
• ISBN-10: 052150970X
• Artikelnr.: 25427686

Autorenporträt

Déirdre Dwyer is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. General epistemological issues
2. Expert evidence as a special case for judicial assessment
3. Making sense of expert disagreement
4. Non-epistemological factors in determining the role of the expert
5. Assessing expert evidence in the English civil courts: the sixteenth to twentieth centuries
6. Assessing expert evidence in the English civil courts today
7. The effective management of bias
Conclusion.