TY - BOOK AU - Dwyer,Déirdre M. TI - Judicial assessment of expert evidence SN - 9780521509701 AV - KD7521 .D89 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Evidence, Expert KW - Great Britain KW - Preuves KW - eclas KW - Procédure judiciaire KW - Litiges KW - Evaluation KW - Analyse comparative KW - Pays occidentaux KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-412) and index; General epistemological issues -- Expert evidence as a special case for judicial assessment -- Making sense of expert disagreement -- Non-epistemological factors in determining the role of the expert -- Assessing expert evidence in the English civil courts : the sixteenth to twentieth centuries -- Assessing expert evidence in the English civil courts today -- The effective management of bias N2 - By reintegrating contemporary evidence theory with applied philosophy, Deirdre Dwyer analyses the epistemological basis for the judicial assessment of expert evidence. She also examines how we might arrange our legal processes in order to support our epistemological and non-epistemological expectations UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008034103.html ER -