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> Expert witnesses are inherently adversarial In the UK, expert witnesses are "servants of the court". Sure, they're paid by one side or the other; but they're
by denton-scratch 3y ago
> Expert witnesses are inherently adversarial
In the UK, expert witnesses are "servants of the court". Sure, they're paid by one side or the other; but they're witnesses, and they're required to give true, unbiased testimony, on pain of a perjury charge. Is it not the same inthe USA?
- 0xffff2 3y agoThe gulf between truish, biased testimony and perjury is immense. The entire reason to have an expert witness giving testimony is that no one else in the courtroom is fully qualified to determine the truthfulness of the testimony.