This blog post examines a court case reported in a recent news article covering email expert witnesses, and digital email forensics.
The below email expert witness article is recent feedback from within the UK judiciary system around advice when using expert witnesses.
A UK supreme court Judge raised concerns about the lack of regulation in the use of expert witnesses. Testimony from an expert witness is a major factor in the outcome of a court case. Accreditation is one way of providing a form of regulation, and this is discussed as a way of ensuring higher standards of expert witness services.
An example of a provider of expert witness accreditation is: https://www.bondsolon.com/expert-witness/expert-witness-certificates/
The importance of an expert witness being impartial is also mentioned, an area mentioned elsewhere in this website.
Unless the court system wish to pay for regulation and certification, I do not believe many expert witnesses will voluntarily wish to get accredited, especially at their own cost.
As an expert, that person will usually be getting paid very well already, and not be relying on court work as their primary income. The court system would need to pay very well to entice expert witnesses to apply.
A better way forward would be to be able to vet any selected expert witness, and have the powers to exclude them from the court case. A poor expert witness can risk a wrongful conviction, or wrongful acquittal.
It is my opinion, that a court system should provide their own expert witness review and approval process. This would be effective regulation.
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