In a recent review of Ontario and British Columbia cases
during the 2007 calendar year for a 2008 CLE paper we were doing on
expert evidence, we found
experts had testified in approximately 300 cases, and their expertise covered an astonishing array of issues - computers, chemistry, motor cycle gangs, the drug trade, mental health,
weapons, alcoholism, psychiatry, orthopedic surgery, occupational therapy, appraisals, internal medicine, valuations, legal fees, negligence in relation to fires, anthropology, linguistics, demography, ecology, ethnobotany, custody and access, vocational testing, and marine surveying.»
At the May 2014 meeting of the Convention on Certain Conventional
Weapons (CCW) meeting at the United Nations, 17
experts were invited to speak at the
expert panels
during the official plenary on autonomous
weapons, filling 18 aveots.