Complaints about medical expert witnesses in the United Kingdom

Medical Law International

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 297-315

  Gooderham, Peter ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD ABUSE; COURT; EXPERT WITNESS; LAW; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PATHOLOGIST; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; PUBLICATION; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 10944256615     PISSN: 09685332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096853320400600402     Document Type: Review

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1. Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time. Heinemann 1987, p110.
2. R v. Clark [2000] All ER (D) 1219 CA; R v. Clark [2003] EWCA Crim 1020.
3. This skeleton argument of the defence is available at www.sallyclark.org/ SkeletonArgument For Appeal.doc and is well worth reading.
4. R v Clark. [2003] EWCA Crim 1020.
5. "Getting it right - prosecution disclosure of unused material" New Law Journal 4 July 2003. NLJ 153.7087.
6. R. v. Clark. [2003] EWCA Crim 1020 at 129.
7. Dr A.P.R. Wilson, letter to Crown Prosecution Service, 15 January 2003.
8. Conference Handbook, Spring Conference, Society of Expert Witnesses, 16 May 2003. This matter was the subject of further discussion at the Spring Conference of the Society on 14 May 2004.
9. The Times, 1 May 2003.
10. Document prepared by Professor Berry, dated 8 January 2003, p1.
11. Supplementary report by Professor Berry, 21 January 2003, p8.
12. Professor Berry's report dated 3 September 1999, p16.
13. See, for example, "Approach of a Pathologist to a case of suspicious death," paragraphs 18-26, R v Clark, [2003] EWCA Crim 1020.
14. Quoted in Law Gazette, 7 October 2002.
15. The CESDI SUDI Studies, The Stationery Office, 2000.
16. Quoted in Law Gazette, 7 October 2002
17. Professor Gary Slapper, Student Law Review, Summer 2003.
18. Quoted in "Mother's ruin," Lawyer 2B, March 2003.
19. "A case of murder and the BMJ," Roy Meadow, British Medical Journal 5 January 2002. BMJ 2002; 324: 41-43.
20. "A case of murder and the BMJ," Roy Meadow, British Medical Journal 5 January 2002. BMJ 2002; 324: 41-43.
21. "Meadow faces GMC over evidence given in child death cases," Owen Dyer, British Medical Journal, 2004; 328: 9.
22. The CESDI SUDI Studies, The Stationery Office, 2000, p92.
23. The Independent, 10 April 2004.
24. "Cot-death blunderer could be struck off," Beezy Marsh, Daily Mail 19 December 2003.
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29. "A Case of Infanticide," V.J.M. DiMaio and C.G. Bernstein, Journal of Forensic Science 1974: 19: 744-54.
30. R v Clark [2000] All ER (D) 1219 CA, paragraphs 81-99.
31. DPP v P [1991] 2 AC 447
32. "The Adventure of Silver Blaze," Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Harper & Bros, 1893: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time?" "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
33. "What Sally Clark said on her release," the Times, 30 January 2003.
34. R v Clark [2003] EWCA 1020, at paragraphs 18-29.
35. The Times, 12 June 2003.
36. Daily Mail 16 May 2003 pp 22-23.
37. "Baby death cases to be reconsidered," the Times, 27 June 2003.
38. The Times, 6 May 2004
39. "Life Term for falling foul of three in one rule; one woman still waiting for review," the Independent, 20 January 2004.
40. "Mother defies lawyers to admit killing baby," Sean O'Neill, the Times, 23 April 2004.
41. R v Cannings [2004] EWCA Crim 1.
42. DPP v Woolmington [1935] AC 462.
43. Re U (a child); Re B (a child) the Independent, 18 May 2004.
44. Hansard, 23 February 2004 37-38.
45. BBC news, 31 May 2004. At www.bbc.co.uk/l/hi/uk/3760105.stm.
46. "Experts in child abuse cases face inquiry," John Carvel, the Guardian, 18 June 2004.
47. "Prejudicial Publicity and the GMC" Tolley's Communications Law 2004: 9(2): 73-74.
48. R (on the application of Mahfouz) v Professional Conduct Committee of the General Medical Council [2004] EWCA Civ 233.
49. Ibid. at paragraph 47.
50. Ibid. at paragraph 48.
51. "Diagnose and be damned," Harvey Marcovitch, British Medical Journal, 1999; 319: 1376.
52. To the joint meeting of the Sections of Paediatrics & Child Health and Clinical Forensic & Legal Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, London, 15 June 2002.
53. J R Soc Med 2002; 95: 431-434.
54. "The legal muddle that may leave children in peril," Nigel Hawkes, the Times, 24 April 2004.
55. "Cot-death professor: Campaign against me puts children at risk," Colin Brown, the Independent 8 May 2004.
56. "Children are the losers from attacks on doctors," Letter, the Guardian, 15 April 2004.
57. "Doctors reluctant to work on child protection committees," Owen Dyer, British Medical Journal, 2004; 328: 307.
58. The Times, 15 March 2004.
59. "Child abuse experts used as witnesses face review," Toby Helm, Daily Telegraph, 18 June 2004.
60. I b i d.