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Deluded Professional Syndrome
A Google-whack but if it gets repeated ofeten enough
it may become part of the general lexicon.
A continuation of many of the threads here
concerning expert witnesses,pathologists and forensic 'scientists'
in todays paper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1314116,00.html
new material
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Public belief in experts appears to be at an all-time low, as acknowledged
by the Expert Witness Institute in publicity material for its conference
next month. Noting that "expert evidence is under attack", it exhorts
prospective attendees to "come along ... and help us restore public
confidence in expert witnesses".
Jane Hickman, a criminal defence solicitor and secretary of the Criminal
Appeal Lawyers Association (Cala), agrees that the system is flawed. "No one
asks, 'How far should we go with forensic evidence?' and it's increasingly
becoming the whole story in a trial. The trend, as science advances, is for
the Crown to adduce evidence that is not sufficiently developed. Juries are
being asked to draw conclusions that the evidence can't bear." And in a
political climate where defendants are seen as getting off lightly, ever
more esoteric expert evidence can, according to Hickman, unduly sway a jury.
"There are more and more branches of expertise being proclaimed. It is a
very worrying development."
Her views are echoed by Patrick O'Connor QC, who has represented defendants
in the Guildford Four, Birmingham Six, and other miscarriage of justice
cases. O'Connor, a speaker next weekend at another conference on expert
evidence, hosted by Cala, says: "It's not that there is an objection to
forensic evidence per se but where things go wrong is in the handling of
that evidence in court. Very often these cases of so-called expert evidence
are not based on science."
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