Title: Overstepping and Sidestepping: The Expert Evidence Dance
Abstract: As science learns more about the world, few areas remain beyond its reach. Expert scientific evidence can be central to cases as varied as medical malpractice, the safety and efficacy of drugs and chemicals, the use of blood tests to determine paternity, or the interpretation of DNA findings. But this evidence can be as perilous as it is necessary. The very quality that renders expert evidence necessary, namely, that it is outside the fact-finder’s ken, also gives rise to the danger: that it will in some way be misunderstood or improperly applied.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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