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Giving Expert Evidence 03-Mistakes & Miscarriages of Justice

A range of legal and forensic experts discuss common mistakes and miscarriages of justice that resulted from compromised evidence.

Created byEve Ash
IntermediateUpdated Dec 15, 2020
Giving Expert Evidence 03-Mistakes & Miscarriages of Justice

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleLearn about miscarriages of justice and the critical role of the expert witness
  • check_circleAvoid verbose and unclear ways of presenting in court
  • check_circleLearn from mistakes of expert witnesses
  • check_circleDon't react imappropriately to cross-examination

About This Course

The role of an expert witness is to provide relevant and impartial evidence in their area of expertise. Unfortunately, there have been cases where the evidence relied on turned out to be flawed or misunderstood, resulting in major mistakes and miscarriages of justice. A range of legal and forensic experts discuss common mistakes and miscarriages of justice that resulted from compromised evidence.

In this course you will learn about mistakes and miscarriages of justice in relation to expert evidence. You will learn about:

  • Miscarriages of justice and wrongful convictions in the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia resulting from flawed expert evidence.
  • The ways some miscarriages of justice occurred as a result of mistakes during investigations and subsequent court proceedings.
  • Avoiding mistakes such as: • Downplaying evidence that undermines or contradicts your opinion. • Acting outside your expertise; being unprepared. • Reacting inappropriately to cross-examination. • Verbose, unclear ways of presenting evidence.

This course is divided into five lessons with some videos and recap activities, followed by a quiz and summary. This program contains 1 hour of professionalism content.

Course Content

5 activities • 5 videos • duration: 1h 10m

  • videocamDifferent Countries, Similar Problems
    Duration 28:58

Your Instructor

Eve Ash

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Eve Ash is a psychologist, film producer and international speaker. She is an expert in human behavior – leadership, communication, service, motivation, performance and justice. Eve founded Seven Dimensions, producing over 1000 comedy, drama and interview style videos, TV shows, feature documentaries and e-learning courses including the hilarious LA-business-based Cutting Edge Communication Comedy Series. Eve has won an Australian Businesswoman of the Year award, and over 170 film awards.

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