Generally, it is a matter for the Courts whether a witness may be classified as an expert or not. In practice an expert is ‘a person with either professional or technical knowledge, whose opinion will be of value’. Expertise may be acquired in a wide variety of contexts, not necessarily academic ones, or wholly […]
I ADMIT to the fact that the timing of this article has a tinge of dramatic irony about it, falling so contingent as it does to International Women’s Day (March 8) and National Justice Week, which begins on March 5. The subject of such irony? The fact that, in the UK, a woman cannot be […]
It is difficult not to have some sympathy with front-line social workers, who have a thankless task, and an ever-increasing workload. The death of little Arthur Labinjo-Hughes has highlighted this phenomena yet again. However it is equally difficult not to feel anger, resentment and some irritation at the lessons not learned, from similar tragedies. How […]
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