What is an expert? Do they have to be attached to a regulatory body? What type of accreditation is required? In this week’s NLJ, Dr Chris Pamplin, editor of the UK Register of Expert Witnesses, looks at two recent cases on this conundrum
Pamplin writes that, in one case, the Association of Clinical Psychologists ‘submitted this was a stark and troubling example of an individual who held herself out as an expert but had neither the qualifications nor the relevant skills to do so’.
He includes guidance handed down by Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, on the use of unregulated experts. Finally, Pamplin urges the courts to exercise particular vigilance and rigour when deciding whether to admit the evidence of such an unregulated expert.
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