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An expert witness, particularly in common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, is a person whose opinion by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience, is accepted by the judge as an expert.
The role of expert witnesses in English law is to give explanations of difficult or technical topics in civil and criminal trials, to assist the fact finding process. The extent to which authorities have been allowed to testify, and on what topics, has been debated, and to this end a variety of criteria have evolved throughout English case law.
In law, a witness is someone who, either voluntarily or under compulsion, provides testimonial evidence, either oral or written, of what they know or claim to know.. A witness might be compelled to provide testimony in court, before a grand jury, before an administrative tribunal, before a deposition officer, or in a variety of other legal proceedings.
Today, Indonesia's legal system is based on Dutch Colonial Law, Adat Law and National Law. [3] [4] After Indonesia gained independence in August 1945, it adopted the Dutch HIR as its code of criminal procedure. In 1981, Indonesia replaced HIR with the KUHAP. The KUHAP improved upon the HIR by adding adversarial features to the criminal procedure.
With Wongso imprisoned, the film focuses on the people surrounding the case: Salihin's family members, Wongso's defense, the trial's public prosecutors, as well as witnesses, experts, and journalists, presenting their stances and arguments, while commenting on the nature of Indonesia's criminal justice system which those opposing Wongso's ...
Dorothy Otnow Lewis is an American psychiatrist and author who has been an expert witness at a number of high-profile cases.. She specializes in the study of violent individuals and people with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
Sir Richard John Evans FRSL FRHistS FBA FLSW (born September 29, 1947) is a British historian of 19th- and 20th-century Europe with a focus on Germany. He is the author of eighteen books, including his three-volume The Third Reich Trilogy (2003–2008).
In 1974, Loftus published two articles with her observations about the conflicting eyewitness accounts in a particular murder trial and about the reliability of witness testimony in general. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] This resulted in several lawyers contacting her about current cases, beginning her career of paid work providing advice to lawyers. [ 6 ] :