The Effective Use Of Experts And Expert Witnesses.
Introduction All construction projects are ultimately about using materials and resources cost effectively to get something built. In achieving those goals engineers and other construction professionals fulfill a wide variety of roles providing technical expertise, project management and contract administration. However, this will often require them to...

The battle of accounting expert witnesses: judges can be harsh.
Thick skin can be an asset for expert witnesses dealing with the harshness of some judges. Judges can make negative comments about an expert in the courtroom, which can hurt an expert's reputation. For example, a judge in Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal said the following about an...

A Litigator's Guide to Expert Witnesses.
A Litigator's Guide to Expert Witnesses Cecil C. Kuhne III ABA Publishing 321 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60610-4714 1590317289, $84.95 www.ababooks.org Any college-level or serious legal library needs A Litigator's Guide to Expert Witnesses, an outstanding survey of...

A litigation guide to expert witnesses.
9781590317280 A litigation guide to expert witnesses. Kuhne, Cecil C. American Bar Association 2006 225 pages $84.95 Paperback KF8961 A litigator in Dallas dealing mostly with commercial and product liability matters,...

For defendants with retardation, procedures vary: expert witnesses in death penalty cases must know standards of proof differ from state to state.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. Supreme Court decision that executing mentally retarded offenders is unconstitutional provided little guidance on how to implement the ruling. The result has been a mishmash of procedures that vary widely from state to state, Dr. Clarence Watson and Dr. Kenneth Weiss said at the...

Securities Litigation and Consulting Group, Inc. Releases Updated 'Regions Morgan Keegan: The Abuse of Structured Finance' Documenting Asset-Backed Related Losses in Six Bond Funds and Related Misrepresentations.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Securities Litigation and Consulting Group, Inc. ("SLCG") has issued an updated report on six Regions Morgan Keegan (RMK) bond funds: Advantage Income Fund (RMA), High Income Fund (RMH), Strategic Income Fund (RSF), Multi-Sector High Income Fund (RHY), Select High Income Fund (MKHIX) and Select...

Securities Litigation and Consulting Group, Inc. Releases Leveraged Municipal Bond Hedge Fund Study.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Securities Litigation and Consulting Group, Inc. ("SLCG") has issued a new study on leveraged municipal bond hedge funds -- including Citigroup's MAT 3, MAT V and Falcon Strategies. Substantial losses suffered by these hedge funds have brought attention to the risks involved in the...

Dust Diseases - Evidence & Expert Witneses.
In BI (Contracting) Pty Limited v University of Adelaide [2008] NSWCA 210, the NSW Court of Appeal reaffirmed that its role is not to disturb findings of fact made by primary judges. The Court also confirmed that expert witnesses who were not practising at the time of an alleged...

Peer review is vital.
I am troubled by trial lawyer Miles J. Zaremski's attempt to mischaracterize peer review of expert witness testimony as an effort to silence those who would give such testimony ("Expert Witnesses Under Fire," Law & Medicine, May 1, 2008, p. 62). Peer review is, always has been,...

Article 18 of the adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987: the appointment of expert witnesses; and the Children Order Advisory Committee Best Practice Guidance.
In the Matter of L (Delay: letter of instruction to expert) The High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland Gillen J Delivered 27 October 2006 This case concerned an application by a Health and Social Services Trust for a freeing order under Article 18 of the Adoption...