Course

Expert Evidence - JURD7316

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.

Excluded: LAWS3316

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the role that expert evidence plays in contemporary civil and criminal trials, in Australia and related common law jurisdictions, and an opportunity to engage in critical reflection and analysis of contemporary approaches to expert evidence. It aims to provide students with a working knowledge of the substantive admissibility and procedural rules, as well as an understanding of the range of divergent and often inconsistent approaches to understanding the sciences and their use in legal settings. Drawing on the insights from a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, the course aims to provide a sense of the richness of contemporary critical theory and scientific analysis, and the possibilities opened up in applying these insights to real-world contexts, in this case expert opinion evidence and its role in legal practice. Thus the course aims to assist students contemplating practice, including helping students to think about appropriate experts; how to integrate expert opinion evidence into the construction of a persuasive case; as well as providing a conceptual apparatus to inform the destabilisation of expert evidence and to critically deconstruct judgments predicated upon expert opinions.

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