Thursday, November 02, 2006

England's CMO Proposes NHS-Selected Experts for Family Law Cases

Sir Liam Donaldson, England's chief medical officer, is proposing that the National Health Service provide experts in family law cases, in place of experts selected by the parties' solicitors. The measure would help ensure competence and address the problem of bias, Donaldson says. Here's the BBC story.

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Fed. R. Evid. 702: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.