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UNINA9910454201803321 |
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Dwyer Déirdre M (Déirdre Marie), <1964-> |
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Titolo |
The judicial assessment of expert evidence / / Déirdre Dwyer [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 |
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1-107-18957-8 |
1-281-98257-1 |
9786611982577 |
0-511-46441-X |
0-511-57513-0 |
0-511-46284-0 |
0-511-46515-7 |
0-511-46208-5 |
0-511-46363-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxxii, 435 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Soggetti |
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Evidence, Expert - Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 388-412) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Justice systems increasingly rely on expert evidence. We are therefore obliged to justify the courts' ability to assess this evidence, especially when the courts must resolve disagreements between experts or address possible bias. By reintegrating contemporary evidence theory with applied philosophy, Deirdre Dwyer analyses the epistemological basis for the judicial assessment of expert evidence. Reintegrating evidence with procedure, she also examines how we might arrange our legal processes in order to support our epistemological and non- |
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