Forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony : reliability through reform? /
This book discusses the intense practical and theoretical challenges of forensic science evidence and the pivotal role it plays in modern criminal proceedings. A global team of prominent scholars and practitioners explores the contemporary challenges of forensic science evidence and expert witness t...
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Cheltenham :
Edward Elgar Publishing,
2018
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Forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony : reliability through reform? |
Obsah:
- Introduction
- Forensic science, evidential reliability and institutional reform / Paul Roberts and Michael Stockdale
- 1. Making sense of forensic science evidence / Paul Roberts
- 2. Re-assessing reliability / Gary Edmond
- 3. Admissibility, reliability and common law epistemology / Tony Ward
- 4. Regulating forensic science / Gillian Tully
- 5. Clarifying the 'reliability' continuum and testing its limits: biometric (fingerprint and DNA) expert evidence / Sophie Carr, Angela Gallop, Emma Piasecki, Gillian Tully, and Tim J Wilson
- 6. Re-examining the 'reliability' of forensic pathology evidence / Tim J Wilson, Adam Jackson, Angela Gallop and Emma Piasecki
- 7. Reliability by procedural rule reform?: expert evidence and the civil-criminal-family procedure rules trichotomy / Michael Stockdale
- 8. Expert evidence law reform in Ireland / Liz Heffernan
- 9. Regulating expert evidence in US courts: measuring Daubert's legacy / Edward J Imwinkelried
- 10. A new Canadian paradigm?: judicial gatekeeping and the reliability of expert evidence / Emma Cunliffe
- 11. Reliability and reform of expert evidence in Malaysia's developmental state: putting the cart before the horse? / Salim Farrar and Mohd Munzil Bin Muhamad
- 12. Forensic science evidence in non-adversary criminal justice systems / Joëlle Vuille
- 13. 'All we need to know'?: questioning transnational scientific evidence / Carole McCartney and Rick Graham
- Index.