Sentences with phrase «as expert witnesses at»

He discussed the passionate opposition of many disability advocacy groups to his position, and even the difficulty he encountered in finding physicians to serve as expert witnesses at trial.

Before Dr. Carl V. Phillips was being presented as an expert witness at wind development planning hearings, he was a fixture in courtrooms related to tobacco health suits.

In a letter to the members of the Family Affairs Committee of the German Federal Parliament, Schucht had asserted that Meyer, as an expert witness at a public hearing of the Committee, had publicly stated various untruths about events connected with the Contergan Foundation.

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.

Prepared approximately 70 applications and testified as expert witness at Oklahoma Corporation Commission regarding Spacing, Pooling, Location Exceptions, etc..

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Therefore the very usefulness of DNA, rarity of false matches, not only fades but begins to beget injustice, as courts accept deeply - flawed statistical evidence (expert witnesses are notoriously poor at stats, ask poor Sally Clark).

This may have led to the temporary gagging of at least one prominent expert witness, as reported in New Scientist last year.

Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, testified before Congress, appeared on The Dr. Oz Show and The Colbert Report, and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous «meat defamation» trial.

As Brown's aged, long - estranged mama, Davis — with the aid of terrific star Chadwick Boseman and some pretty expert makeup artists whose numbers Clint Eastwood should find immediately — manages to reinvigorate a set - up familiar from any number of tortured artist - biopics (i.e. absentee parent comes groveling years later to abandoned child - turned - superstar at the peak of his fame) with the same smart, electrifying clarity of character and tender yet tough - minded emotionalism that should be long - recognizable by now to anyone who has seen Doubt or Antwone Fisher or Solaris or Won't Back Down, or else Fences, King Hedley II, or Seven Guitars on Broadway, or, more likely, witnessed Davis» extraordinary, one - woman rescue job on Taylor's The Help.

As Channing McClaren learns that a murdered computer hacker was paid for information about the late Naomi Walling, Patty (Glenn Close) and Ellen (Rose Byrne) take a tense trip to Maine to interview an expert witness whom they hope can shed some light on insider trading practices at Princefield Investments.

The EVAAS is the one value - added model (VAM) on which I've conducted most of my research, also in this district (see, for example, here, here, here, and here); hence, I along with Jesse Rothstein — Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of California — Berkeley, who also conducts extensive research on VAMs — are serving as the expert witnesses in this case.

In 2013 Abu Hamdan's audio documentary The Freedom of Speech Itself was submitted as evidence at the UK asylum tribunal where the artist himself was called to testify as an expert witness.

In 2013 Abu Hamdan's audio documentary The Freedom of Speech Itself, which was commissioned by The Showroom, was submitted as evidence at a UK asylum tribunal where the artist himself was called to testify as an expert witness.

He has testified as an expert witness on the theology, ethics, science, and economics of climate change policy before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce; briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy; delivered a paper at a conference at the Vatican sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and spoken at the 2008, 2009, and 2010 International Conferences on Climate Change and at colleges, churches, and other venues.

BTW Gavin was on Roberts» show today too, I thought at the time, ya know, having Gavin, or Mann, or Hansen on these shows running interference for... themselves... is kinda like having John Gotti testifying before a House Subcommittee on Organized Crime as an expert witness and telling them «there is no such thing as the Mafia.»

Even his moments of most spectacular looniness, such as calling Michael Crichton as an expert witness to a Senate hearing, are entirely at home in the comfortable personal history he has woven as the dumbest man in the Senate.

A formula can not be given, at least insofar as I can tell, for how to do this and I still face the problem from the most mundane (our firm has a forensics service line where we'll provide expert witness testimony with respect to construction defect litigation and the opposing side has their experts as well) to the most impactful (climate disruption), to the most woo infested (ESP, UFOs, «free energy,» etc.), to the politically pragmatic (do guns really prevent crime?).

Gross LJ was referring to the conduct and qualifications of Saul Haydon Rowe, who proclaimed himself as an expert witness when giving evidence on behalf of the SFO at four separate Libor trials.

A couple of different bloggers — Dwight Sullivan at CAAFlog and Danny Jacobs at On the Record — picked up on this piece of trivia from Sales» obits that I completely overlooked: He once served as an expert witness called to testify in the court martial of a sailor accused of tossing a pie into an officer's face.

Today, in federal district court in Wichita, Judge Monti Belot is holding a hearing, at which a government expert will apparently try to convince the judge that two defense witnesses should be precluded from testifying at trial, as «Rwandan witnesses are inherently unreliable because they're controlled by the government of the African nation.»

My career as an expert witness started in 1982, at which time I was the statutory actuary in a life assurance company (i.e. responsible for signing off the annual statutory financial condition report).

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.

His talents and skills as a trial lawyer have been recognized as well by his participation as a featured speaker for the «Best Trial Lawyer Video Series» which is published online by WIN Interactive, Inc., a Massachusetts based nation - wide litigation consulting firm in which Attorney Ventura has been interviewed on a variety of subjects including the art of storytelling and the use of experts witnesses at trial.

We have also defended those opinions by testimony in depositions and at trial as qualified expert witnesses.

When I first started as an expert witness specialising in Mental Capacity, a colleague of mine said to me: «Tim, I'm a Consultant Psychiatrist and therefore the Gold standard, you are only a nurse and therefore, at best, will only ever be bronze.»

Here Lawyer Monthly hears from Dr Belinda Stuart - Moonlight, Managing Director at Moonlight Environmental Ltd, a UK - based firm providing expert witness services, as well as consultancy, auditing and training services in food safety and workplace safety.

At what point does the process of making data meaningful require expertise of a type, or to a degree, that the person producing it should have to be qualified as an expert witness?

As a member on various e-mail lists, I get messages at least twice a month from attorneys around the country asking for assistance in everything ranging from substantive areas of the law to picking a talented expert witness.

R.E.M. and B.M. (also Griecken, [2009] O.J. No. 5037 at 24 — 25) cite Bell, [1997] N.W.T.J. No. 18 (CA) at para 28:... Where, as here, expert evidence is offered by the defence, in its efforts to make full answer and defence, a trial court should not impose, as noted in Mohan, too strict a standard for the necessity of such evidence, especially where as here the witness recognized the need to avoid crossing into the jury's domain.

Unless the judge as factfinder or jury clearly shows that they are ready for the criminal defendant lawyer to let the obstructionist witness have it — which usually will not happen with any witness other than an opposing expert puffing out his or her obstructionist and obfuscating chest at all times — the judge and jury may well punish the overbearing cross examining criminal lawyer, in one way or another.

Giving evidence at the trial will be forensic experts, police officers and eye witnesses as well as friends and relatives of both the deceased and the accused.

Later e.g. at barristers» conferences, and also at court in expert witness conferences, the opportunity to work as a team becomes more prominent and assistance is often given to the Court additionally by this means.

In fact, despite widespread and growing discontent with the perpetually vexed expert witness system in the Ontario auto insurance system — OTLA has never shown up at any of the many media battles over systemic shoddy IMEs / IEs which morph into flawed expert opinion evidence (substandard «expert» opinion evidence is as common as dirt in the Ontario personal injury context).

[12] In any event, the proposed evidence is also truly responsive as a rebuttal to the opinion of another expert witness called by the CN defendants, Dr. Baker, whose report entered at Tab 1 of Exhibit 61 states:

Knowing the individual plaintiffs can be as essential as choosing expert witnesses, because these plaintiffs will be the ones who tell their stories at trial.

Someone such as an EMT who provided medical treatment at the scene of an accident can be called as an expert witness, provided the judge is satisfied he is qualified.

The plaintiff also obtained a second report from an orthopedic surgeon for the purpose of his accident benefits claim but advised that he would not be calling that expert as a witness at the trial of the tort action.

What we learn from this case is that, while a trial court can use information provided by an expert witness as evidence as to what may be in a child's best interest, it must still independently make the decision regarding what custody arrangements are in the child's best interest after providing both parents an opportunity to present evidence at a trial.

James Stanbury is a partner at RGL Forensics and has 25 years» experience as an expert witness (www.rgl.com).

We note that you have called no expert evidence to contradict the evidence given by Mr. Jewett (and corroborated by every witness we have called) as to how corporate lawyers identify and manage conflict issues as professionals and approach judgments they must make as counsel in situations comparable to those at issue in our case having regard to, among other things, the important role performed by independent directors deliberating separately and by in - house counsel.

Prior to the case conference, the parties will be required to file a case conference summary outlining the documents to be used at the hearing, any production issues, the preference of type of hearing (written, electronic or in - person), a list of witnesses (including an explanation as to why more than two expert witnesses are required, if applicable) and the details of the most recent settlement offers.

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Cloisters has always been at the cutting edge of clinical negligence law, playing a lead role in many of the major cases such as A v Powys Local Health Board (# 10.7 m), the highest ever clinical negligence award at trial and the first to break through the # 10m barrier; Masterman - Lister v Brutton & Co and others, the leading Court of Appeal case on capacity; Iqbal v Whipps Cross University NHS Trust leading Court of Appeal case regarding compensation for the «lost years» and the doctrine of precedent; Crofton v NHSLA in respect of the impact of local authority payments on damages for care; and Lucas v Barking, Havering & Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust, the leading case on disclosure of draft witness statements and expert reports.

Step 5: Win at trial in front of a judge that somehow didn't get the memo that the Washington Supreme Court in Chaplin eliminated the need for Selby's to even make their adverse possession claim «in good faith under a claim of right»... certainly because the attorney didn't bother to raise this point... along I suspect with hiring a surveyor to testify as an expert witness.

The duty that an expert witness owes to the court at common law and the admissibility of that opinion was articulated by the Supreme Court as follows:

At Dan Caplis Law we retain top trucking industry expert witnesses, as well as engineers and accident reconstruction experts to ensure that trucking companies are held fully liable for all of the harm they cause.

Jose has also appeared at trials in state and federal courts as an expert witness in real estate law.

Exchange of lists of lay and expert witnesses expected to be called as witnesses at the arbitration hearing;

A forensic scientist with 14 years experience as an expert witness submitted a conclusion during cross-examination at a jury trial that did not match her preliminary written report and testimony.

Provided that an expert witness: must be a licensed health care provider in at least one state; routinely treat or routinely treated within the previous five years the subject matter of the malpractice claim; and demonstrate a familiarity with the standards of care and practice as related to the subject matter of the malpractice claim.