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Mon 02 Feb 2009Coming to terms with greater role of expert
This is an edited version of Mrs Justice Fidelma Macken’s remarks at the recent launch of the Law Reform Commission Consultation Paper on expert evidence.
IT MAY not always be appreciated by non-lawyers that witnesses in court are not entitled to give their opinion, but only to give factual evidence, with certain rare exceptions, unless the witness is tendered and accepted as being expert, when they can give opinion evidence.
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