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Expert evidence and the courts 2. Proposals for reform, expert witness bodies and ‘the model report’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Keith J. B. Rix
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In response to what are regarded as the two principal evils of the civil justice system, costs and delay, Lord Woolf, now Master of the Rolls, has presided over an inquiry which has resulted in some proposed reforms which should change radically the administration of civil justice. The implications for experts are best considered against the background of a brief overview of the proposed reforms. This paper then considers the role of the expert witness organisations and the medical version of ‘the model expert report’.

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Research Article
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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , March 1999 , pp. 154 - 160
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1999 

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