Cultural expertise and litigation
Subtitle: patterns, conflicts, narratives
By: edited by Livia Holden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780203818305; 9780415601566
Subjects: Expert Evidence; Forensic anthropology; Forensic sociology; Right of Asylum
Table of contents: title: South Asian Muslims and country expertise in the American immigration courts / Sylvia Vatuk; title: When South Asians marry trans-jurisdictionally : some reflections on immigration cases by an expert? / Prakash Shah; title: French law courts and South Asians litigants / Vronique Bouillier; title: Being on and being in : exposure and influence of academic experts in contemporary Denmark / Stig Toft Madsen; title: Witness statements and credibility assessments in the British asylum courts / Anthony Good; title: Honour killing?, or, Just plain homicide? / Roger Ballard; title: Life and law : advocacy and expert witnessing in the UK / Werner Menski; title: The case of S. : elaborating the right? narrative to fit normative/political expectation in asylum procedure in Italy / Tommaso Sbriccoli and Stefano Jacoviello; title: Expert report writing : professional commitments and legal outcomes / Livia Holden.