Medical Experts in the Family Court: Where Two Worlds Collide
Gresham College Lectures
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If we're not able to get the right caliber of experts to court, does that mean a lowering of standards? The short answer is yes. We already get unqualified experts from other jurisdictions commenting on things and outside of their expertise. So for example, I'm a radiologist but that doesn't meanI can report a mammogram or somebody's prostate MRI as an adult. But quite a lot of people working those jurisdictions will be quite happy to give an opinion on a child's very subtle fracture. If they worked in that scenario would recognise that it demonstrates abuse. It's not speculation from my part, I come across those criminal trials where those experts are called and they give that evidence.
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