Sentences with phrase «acting as an expert witness»

Dr. Carter acted as an expert witness on climate change before the U.S. Senate Committee of Environment & Public Works, the Australian and New Zealand parliamentary Select Committees into emissions trading, and in a meeting in parliament house, Stockholm, Sweden.

Carter has acted as an expert witness on climate change before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee; parliamentary select committees on emissions trading in Australia and New Zealand; and in a meeting in Parliament House, Stockholm, Sweden.

In circumstances where Nestor are instructed to act as expert witness in relation to periodical payments, it would be considered a conflict of interest to give specific advice on how to invest a lump sum.

At Rogan Law, we often work with accident reconstruction specialists, medical professionals, economists, private investigators and other qualified professionals to conduct investigations and act as expert witnesses for our cases.

The ultimate requirement for experts under Part 35 and 25 Civil Procedure Rule and other such protocols, and indeed the RICS guidance to surveyors acting as expert witnesses, is to maintain an expert's ultimate duty to the Court in preparing and presenting evidence, and obviously not to their instructing parties.

Nic also acts as an expert witness in knotweed disputes & litigation (www.environetuk.com).

He advises and assists clients both within the UK and internationally, including in multi-jurisdictional disputes, and has acted both as an expert witness on English law in Canadian proceedings and as an examiner under US letters of request to the English courts.

Experienced litigator and regularly acts as counsel in arbitral tribunals, often where EU, competition or foreign law issues arise — in appropriate circumstances also acts as expert witness.

People who act as expert witnesses perform a crucial role in judicial proceedings in the UK.

Acting as an expert witness gives rise to obligations that go way beyond giving advice on a specialist subject.

A consequence of this decision has been greater emphasis by instructing parties on being extra careful when deciding who would be suitable to act as expert witness.

Lastly, New Mexico mandates that plaintiffs who want to prove a medical malpractice claim have a medical expert act as an expert witness.

With a combined value of more than RMB5 billion, the deals included more than 30 domestic arbitration cases, more than 15 foreign - related arbitration cases, more than 10 domestic and foreign lawsuits, and two cases where it acted as expert witness on PRC law.

He has also acted as an expert witness and as an expert appointed to determine disputes.

He gives public and in - house seminars in the U.S. and internationally, helps companies improve their contracts and their contract process, and acts as an expert witness in contract disputes.

For example, Tom has been instructed to provide opinions for use in four separate claims before the South Korean courts, and has travelled to Texas to act as an expert witness in proceedings before the Dallas State Court.

A private investigator with accident reconstruction experience can also act as an expert witness in court.

She writes and teaches on the topic and has assisted in the drafting of numerous expert opinions on the Convention and acts as an expert witness herself.

When it comes to finding M&E consulting engineers who will act as expert witnesses then the best places to find them is to contact organisations such as the UK Register of Expert Witnesses, the Academy of Experts, the Expert Witness Institute or the National Expert Witness Agency (NEWA) as well as checking any of the legal website online directories, including of course Lawyer Monthly.

The Judge's function is to decide whether someone is suitably qualified to act as an expert witness (if the Barristers disagree on this, they typically ask the Judge for a ruling).

She provides professional training and consultation services to professionals, as well as acting as an expert witness in legal proceedings.

Harriett offers valuable support to family lawyers throughout Florida and can act as an expert witness for divorce cases.

Not exact matches

Dr Leblanc has served as an external advisor to boards that have won national awards and peer endorsement from institutional shareholders for their corporate governance practices and has also acted as a corporate governance expert witness in recent years.

As a licensed doctoral psychologist and authority on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and related federal disability laws, Howie has been an expert witness — testifying on behalf of parents, school districts, and state education departments — in many federal or state court cases, and innumerable due process hearings.

Law & Forensics team members act as testifying expert witnesses, discovery referees, forensic neutrals, Special Masters, and electronic discovery consultants both in the U.S. and abroad, having worked on hundreds of matters.

In such scenarios, a key consideration of the justice system is how to ensure that expert witnesses offer an unbiased scientific or technical opinion based upon their training and expertise, rather than act as «hired guns» who present unbalanced opinions unduly favouring the party that retains them.

In one of his books, The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty, the behavioural economist Dan Ariely gives a first - hand account of his one experience of acting as a paid expert witness in a court hearing.

If I decide to take the case, Doc continues to act as my consultation, helps me to prepare expert witnesses, etc..

Family cases need to be decided fairly and if an expert is proferred as a witness to give expert opinion evidence it is the Judge's role to act as a gatekeeper to ensure only proper family law expert evidence is admitted into the record.

London also benefits from the availability of highly qualified professionals who act as arbitrators, legal counsel and expert witnesses.

She has acted as counsel, expert witness and arbitral secretary in numerous international arbitration matters.

I have advised states and investors in international investment disputes and acted as expert counsel, expert witness and lead associate in a number of investment arbitration proceedings.

Occasionally we act on behalf of local authorities or government agencies either as expert witness at inquiry or providing supporting evidence at local plan inquiries, site allocations or informal hearings.

A small proportion (13 %) of the expert witnesses said they would stop acting if immunity from suit was restricted, as may happen depending on the outcome of a case currently before the Supreme Court, Jones v Kaney.

I don't see why that responsibility should disappear because I'm now acting as an expert on the witness stand in court.

He has acted as a court appointed expert witness in numerous parental alienation cases and has been at the forefront of efforts to have the problem recognised and understood within the UK.

This follows in line with psychology and other mental health trade organizations» promotion and lobbying for more and more business in the family courts over the past two decades, performing a panoply of various and sundry services such as non-lawyer mediation, «parenting plan development», acting as case managers or special masters or «parenting coordinators», doing custody evaluations, opining as litigant - hired expert witnesses and consultants, managing supervised visitation centers, teaching parenting classes, and so forth.

I thought that was a thing of the past until I came across a recent Superior Court case in which a Realtor acted as an «expert witness».