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Forensic evidence in court
06 Feb 2019
This talk considers a number of topics relevant to the presentation of evidence in Court:
To fully understand the role and obligations of an expert in a variety of Court environments
0.5 CPD credit.
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- Professional witness versus expert witness
- Opinion versus witness of fact
- Different Court environments; Inquest; Crown Court; Family Court; Civil proceedings
- The duties of an expert and the rules concerning them
- The overriding duty to the court
- Evidence-in-chief
- Cross-examination
- Re-examination
- Rebuttal evidence
- Retention of materials
- Disclosure
- Appeals and the importance of original transcripts of a trial versus previously served reports or statements
- Medicolegal report writing
- Some casework examples of how a case may proceed through the Court process:
- Rickets and abusive head trauma
- Abusive head injury as an infant, conviction, Appeal, murder as a child
- Radiology as a gatekeeper in the investigation of both sudden and suspicious paediatric deaths
- Improving the pathology evidence in abusive head trauma:
- Ophthalmic pathology, Neuropathology, Osteo-articular Pathology including specimen radiology
To fully understand the role and obligations of an expert in a variety of Court environments
0.5 CPD credit.
Watch the video and complete the online self-reflection form. Go to "My events" to download your certificate. You must login to watch the video and receive CPD.
Duration:19 mins
Speaker info
Nathaniel Cary
Nathaniel Cary has been a Consultant Pathologist for nearly thirty years and has been on the Home Office Register of Forensic Pathologists for over twenty-six years. He always had a special interest in paediatric forensic pathology and was one of the first to promote the benefits of a 'double doctor' post mortem examination with a Consultant Paediatric Pathologist in the 1990's as best practice. There have been many changes over the period that he has been practicing, in particular the regular engagement of other experts as well as paediatric pathologists, including specialist radiologists, neuropathologists, ophthalmic pathologists and osteo-articular pathologists. This has significantly enhanced our understanding of the pathology of trauma in childhood and in turn has ensured that best evidence is put before the Courts.