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Hi Mr. Morton - Did you read the Vancouver Sun and Calgary Herald columns that talk about bogus medicolegal experts polluting the system? Any comments - observations?
1)Training standards for forensic pathologists vary across Canada Vancouver Sun - Douglas Quan Disgraced pathologist Charles Smith was stripped of his medical licence in Ontario in connection with a series of botched autopsies and for providing
2)Advocates posing as expert witnesses draw huge payments Vancouver Sun - Ian Mulgrew - Jan 24, 2011 As a result, in July of last year a modified rule was introduced saying an expert "has a duty to assist the court and is not to be an advocate for any party ...
3)Bad doctors can't provide good testimony Calgary Herald - Susan Martinuk - Feb 4, 2011 Two problems -- Smith wasn't the professional he claimed to be and he wasn't the expert witness the courts believed him to be. Smith's deceptions caught up ...
3 comments:
Hi Mr. Morton - Did you read the Vancouver Sun and Calgary Herald columns that talk about bogus medicolegal experts polluting the system? Any comments - observations?
1)Training standards for forensic pathologists vary across Canada
Vancouver Sun - Douglas Quan
Disgraced pathologist Charles Smith was stripped of his medical licence in Ontario in connection with a series of botched autopsies and for providing
2)Advocates posing as expert witnesses draw huge payments
Vancouver Sun - Ian Mulgrew - Jan 24, 2011
As a result, in July of last year a modified rule was introduced saying an expert "has a duty to assist the court and is not to be an advocate for any party ...
3)Bad doctors can't provide good testimony
Calgary Herald - Susan Martinuk - Feb 4, 2011
Two problems -- Smith wasn't the professional he claimed to be and he wasn't the expert witness the courts believed him to be. Smith's deceptions caught up ...
I haven't seen the articles but will look. Thanks
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