Expert reports and the forensic sciences

Edmond, Gary, Martire, Kristy and San Roque, Mehera (2017) Expert reports and the forensic sciences. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 40 (2). pp. 590-637. ISSN 0313-0096

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Abstract

All Australian jurisdictions regulate the admission of expert opinion evidence. The rules focus on ‘specialised knowledge’, the existence of a ‘field’, and ‘training, study or experience’.[footnote* In most Australian jurisdictions the admission of expert opinion evidence is governed by s 79 of the Uniform Evidence Law (‘UEL’): see Evidence Act 1995 (Cth); Evidence Act 2011 (ACT); Evidence Act 1995 (NSW); Evidence Act 2001 (Tas); Evidence Act 2008 (Vic); Evidence Act 2004 (NI); Evidence (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011 (NT). The common law continues in Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. See Kristy Martire and Gary Edmond, ‘Rethinking Expert Opinion Evidence’ (2017) 40 Melbourne University Law Review 967; Gary Edmond and Kristy Martire, ‘Knowing Experts? Section 79, Forensic Science Evidence and the Limits of “Training, Study or Experience”’ in Andrew Roberts and Jeremy Gans (eds), Critical Perspectives on the Uniform Evidence Law (Federation Press, 2017) 80.] They purport to regulate oral testimony but also the expert reports prepared in advance of potential proceedings, which often shape the way charge decisions are made, pleas are negotiated, and cases are settled, prosecuted, defended and occasionally appealed.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	M200 Law by Topic
Department:	Faculties > Business and Law > Northumbria Law School
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2018 09:19
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2019 19:30
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/35377

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