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Trials and Tribulations: Social Science Evidence, Expert Witnesses, The Voice of Authority and the Discourse of Ideology in the Courts

Author: N Kathleen Sam Banks
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Huddersfield
Subjects: Evidence (Law) (Other articles)
Evidence Expert
Issue: Volume 6, Number 4 (December 1999)
Category: Refereed Articles

Abstract

The author suggests that law exercises strict control by means of evidentiary rules over the kinds of knowledge that are accepted within its boundaries. She discusses the use of expert evidence in relation to DNA tests and the "battered wife syndrome" as prime examples of this process at work.

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