Sentences with phrase «expert testimony about»

Bala said courts are unlikely to take such a drastic step without hearing expert testimony about what's happening in the family.

And that's probably why the English judge had such a problem with admitting expert testimony about Bayes» theorem with regard to a criminal case.

It would have been preferable to have expert testimony about it (para 66).

To establish this, the plaintiff must present expert testimony about the appropriate standard of care that should have been used when treating the plaintiff, and that the defendant failed to meet the standard.

A fair trial must include reliable expert testimony about postpartum psychosis and the woman's diagnosis during the time of the crime.

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We only got about half way through so I will be in contact with you to hire you again to get you to give your testimony again when we have our next hearing to refute the expert that they are going to have.

The purpose will be to solicit testimony from experts and the general public about the best ways to fix -LSB-...]

To date, Mitchell has performed more than 1300 autopsy examinations, overseen about 30,000 death investigations, and provided expert testimony in countless court cases.

My son is now a criminal defense attorney and an expert on eyewitness testimony (which he has written about for Edutopia.org), and, frankly, I'm not surprised.

The experts, whose testimony contradicted widely held assumptions about the workforce of the future and the...

In the analysis of due process across states, there are also some shared common points: written prior notice to both parties about the time and date of the hearing, provisions for electronic or written transcripts of the hearing, parental choice about whether the hearing is open or closed, allowing the student in question to attend, opportunity for attorneys to be in attendance, and acceptance of expert witnesses for both sides to give testimony.

The first reason was that the author of this article (in my opinion) unfairly captured my four hours of testimony, by primarily positioning me as an «expert witness» who did not know really anything about the New Mexico teacher evaluation model.

Moukawsher, who heard months of expert testimony on public education from January 12 to June 3, made the same conclusion about special - education funding and what he concluded were lax standards for evaluating teachers and for promoting and graduating students who can not read.

The motion goes to outline the prosecution's concerns about Clark's expected testimony regarding the «reasonable steps an expert in this field would take to preclude the feeding of feral cats.»

Since then there have been numerous documentaries about climate change, each taking different tacks to generate interest: The 11th Hour, which sexed up expert testimony with Leonardo DiCaprio's narration; Merchants of Doubt, which explained climate denial as a scurrilous corporate con game; and Chasing Ice, which took cues from nature documentaries in its quest to capture melting glaciers on film.

However, according to expert witness testimony for Eversource, one of the main project proponents, after taking into account additional costs, including operations and maintenance, depreciation expenses, and return on equity, the ANE pipeline is expected to cost $ 0.5 billion per year for 20 years — about $ 6.6 billion in present value terms.

Jones notes that research about the operation of confirmation bias has the potential to undermine the testimony of expert witnesses, because it has been demonstrated that a witness's prior knowledge of inculpatory evidence about an accused can skew even his or her «technical» evidence, for example, fingerprint analysis.

A November 16, 2017 decision, Norman v. All About Women PA, et al., case number K14C -12-003, reviewed an expert's testimony on the standard of care in a medical malpractice lawsuit.

This begins at the initial client interview when we learn about you and your accident, and continues when we obtain relevant medical records, contact key witnesses, inspect and preserve important evidence and instrumentalities, seek out necessary documents and things from parties and non-parties, and retain the services of top expert witnesses to provide testimony on liability and medical issues affecting the case.

There are complicated legal principles involved, and proving a product liability claim often relies on expert testimony and reams of technical information about a product's design and manufacturing process.

Unfortunately, the Court goes into very little detail about the size of the reasonable royalty claimed by plaintiff's expert Raymond Sims, whose royalty testimony the Court precluded.

It seems to me that jury instructions could be viewed as a kind of testimony provided by an expert witness (the judge) about what verdict must be returned based on what facts the jury finds to be true...

It provides an overview of the essential role that treating and expert practitioners play in the lawsuit, tips on how treating practitioners can avoid hurting their patient's case, details about «experts» and their duties, guidelines for preparing medical - legal reports, as well as tips to provide effective expert testimony in court.

During this time, expert testimony may also be had, and this may require visits to doctors who are willing to testify about the extent of your injuries.

They shared their experience about the cross-examination of experts, discussed various grounds on which expert opinions are challenged, and offered their advice for preparation and testimony in a fire case.

None of these cases are simple and each of them require strategic litigation, many witnesses, competent expert testimony, and zealous advocacy by an attorney who truly cares about the client.

Helpful evidence to meeting this burden might include, defendant's medical history, testimony from the defendant and eyewitnesses, expert medical testimony, and notes and warnings about the normal side effects (and the expected duration of such side effects) of prescription medications.

For example, if a judge qualifies a witness to give expert testimony regarding the repair of a motor vehicle, that witness can give an opinion about proper repair procedures, repair work performed and repair work required.

Adding to this ever growing database of case comments criticizing expert witnesses for advocacy, reasons for judgement were released this week by the BC Supreme Court, New Westminster Registry, rejecting the evidence of an orthopaedic surgeon hired by ICBC and providing critical comments about his courtroom testimony.

Since they are not experts, lay witnesses may only offer testimony about facts or a very limited scope of opinions.

Not all experts have knowledge of the motorcycle or cycling industry - our experts are trusted in the motorcycle and cycling communities.Expert testimony after obtaining and evaluating evidence in your case is just one of the ways we continue to have about a 99 percent success rate for our clients in personal injury cases.

Defendants challenged the severity of plaintiff's injuries only through cross-examination (about possible cosmetic procedures that might lessen the visibility of scars) but they did not offer any expert medical testimony.

Today the Court granted certiorari to Harrington v. Richter, an ineffective assistance of counsel case challenging the issuance of habeas corpus relief by the Ninth Circuit based upon counsel's reliance on cross-examination and other methods to create reasonable doubt about the defendant's guilt rather than expert - opinion testimony.

When patients make claims of negligence the process of discovering whether negligence occurred requires investigating medical records, interviewing the involved parties (through sworn depositions), finding experts, sorting out conflicts between the opinions of experts, reinvestigating the records and testimony as new insights are uncovered and then reaching some kind of consensus, if possible, about what actually occurred and whether those facts meet the definition of legal negligence.

As I transcribed the next several posts about my trial (coming out soon) concerning expert witness testimony, I thought that medical expert testimony is similar to a post on Wikipedia.

He based his decision in part on the testimony of an expert police witness who testified about the customs and practices of the drug trade.

After 13 years the Mississippi Supreme Court has finally conceded that Jeffrey Havard is entitled to a hearing at the trial court level on whether or not the new evidence about the expert witness Steven Hayne's testimony warrants a new trial.

Boston government investigations and white collar defense partner Brian Kelly is quoted in this article about a recent federal court case that convicted a man of extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion, where the prosecutors presented expert testimony from a Mafia expert.

On remand from Daubert, the lower court's unease with this new task was clearly evident: «Our responsibility, then, unless we misread the Supreme Court's opinion is to resolve disputes among respected, well credentialed scientists about matters squarely within their expertise, in areas where there is no scientific consensus as to what is or what is not «good science,» and occasionally to reject such expert testimony because it was not «derived by the scientific method.»

In an unusual turn of events at the Texas trial now under appeal, the state was caught red - handed: Four of the state's five expert witnesses were forced to change their testimony on the stand when confronted with emails showing they had lied about who had written their reports.

The data helps corporate users select appropriate outside counsel; law firm users pitch new clients and matters; and all users make informed decisions about where to file (or whether to seek transfer), pleadings, discovery and dispositive motions, claim construction, expert testimony and trial.

1999), the defendant moved to exclude the testimony of an expert offered by the plaintiff to testify about the monetary value of the plaintiff's loss of enjoyment of life.

Such testimony could presumably come only from an expert in medical insurance compensation and the Court suggested that the trial court might want to instruct the jury not to think about whether the plaintiff in the case at bar had medical insurance, even though we all live in the first state ever to mandate such coverage for all citizens.

Expert witnesses such as doctors and accident reconstruction experts may also present testimony about the car accident or your injuries in court.

Interfaced with all attorneys in office; Contacted witnesses about testimony and take statements; Transcribed court hearings for the Attorneys; Accompanied Commonwealth Attorney to Medical Examiner's office; Observed meetings with attorneys, expert witnesses, and police detectives; Conducted legal research for hearings; Drafted Notices, Motions, and Order; Accompanied attorneys to court and observed legal proceedings; Update all code books and manuals for all attorneys with the annual supplemental pages.

Cincinnati, OH About Blog Dr. Kenneth J. Manges, PhD, forensic psychologist, is a nationally recognized expert witness providing consultation, evaluation and testimony in the areas of earnings capacity, vocational wage loss, and psychological trauma for both plaintiff and defense litigants.

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Our staff is known for the expertise necessary to assist you and your legal team behind the scenes, through work product reviews of previously performed Social Investigations (Child Custody Evaluations), and expert witness testimony about specific topics important for the Court's consideration when making decisions pertaining to your family's specific needs.»

The second strategy for such education vis a vis expert testimony is to have the expert testify about the phenomenon of parental alienation and what it looks like in a general sense.

«Testimony by an expert knowledgeable about the strategies that parents use to promulgate and support alienation, the extent to which children can be manipulated to reject and denigrate a parent, the extent to which children are suggestible, the mechanics of stereotype induction, and the psychological damage associated with involving children in parental hostilities, may assist the court in determining the proper amount of weight to give a child's explicitly stated preferences and statements regarding each parent.