Friday, February 25, 2005

Antipodes

Critics of the American judicial system sometimes urge that experts should be retained by the courts, because that would foster impartial and unbiased testimony.

Now comes a report from Xinhua that experts will leave the employ of the Chinese courts, because that will help foster impartial and unbiased testimony.

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Fed. R. Evid. 702: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.