EXPERT WITNESS

Purpose
Educational qualification and experience
Problem in examining the EW
How to successfully examine the EW
1. Credibility
2. Qualification
3. Making the witness your expert
4. Attacking the experts facts
5. Impeaching the EW with an article, journal
or chapter of a book from his field
Children as witness
Assailing the credibility of the witness
testimony
Errors and contradictions
Honest mistake
Lack of opportunity to observe
Perception and reality
Identification of evidence
DNA
Lack of personal knowledge
Lies and false declarations
Prior and inconsistent statements