Can Anyone Be an Expert Witness?
17 January, 2019
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The Honourable Justice Chesterman once defined the role of the expert witness as: “… to educate or inform the court about the relevant aspects of the witness’s specialty to enable the court itself to access evidence, which, without that tuition, the court would be unable to do”. In most circumstances, the court does not admit mere opinion into evidence, as indicated by the opinion rule in s76 of Evidence Act (Cth) 1995 […]
