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What weight is given to expert evidence?
By Bryce Wray | Legal Times 27 January 2012
It has been argued that there are issues which simply cannot be decided without expert guidance. Expert opinion evidence is therefore readily received on issues relating to, inter alia, ballistics, engineering, chemistry, medicine, accounting and psychiatry. The question that, however, poses itself is whether expert evidence is in all circumstances necessary....