Course description
Legal professionals who work in criminal law often have to deal with expert evidence in criminal trials. When handling expert evidence, it is vital that you have a full understanding of the true basis on which this evidence is offered, whether this is scientific expert evidence, police as expert witnesses or any other field of expertise you may come across.
Marguerite Russell presents this comprehensive and informative webinar that analyses the role of expert evidence in criminal trials, to ensure that you do not miss vital challenges to the expert witness and the jury do not become confused with the real weight of such evidence.
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Training Course Content
Introduction
This three-part webinar series will analyse the role of expert evidence in criminal trials.
When handling expert evidence, unless you fully understand the true basis on which the evidence is offered, vital challenges to the expert witness may be missed and the jury can become confused as to the real weight of such evidence.
What You Will Learn
This modular webinar series will cover the following:
Module 1 - Scientific Expert Evidence
- Objective Opinion
- How to cross examine
- Criminal Procedure Rules
- Approaches to disclosure
- Challenging admissibility of expert evidence
- Novel evidence
- Case studies
Module 2 - Police as Expert Witnesses
- Police as prosecution witnesses
- Tactics for the Defence
- Disclosure
- Cross examination
- Civilian Police employees as witnesses
- How to handle ‘public interest immunity’
- Case studies
Module 3 - Instructing an Expert
- Instructing an expert at pre-trial and during trial
- Application of Criminal Procedure Rules
- Age related evidence, such as that given by counsellors
- Assessing appeal issues
- Case Studies
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