LIMITATIONS OF EXPERT EVIDENCE

Doctors from diverse specialties are required, from time to time, to g ive evidence either in documentary form or in person to both civil and criminal courts. A joint conference of the Royal Colleges of Physicia ns and Pathologists was held at the Royal College of Physicians on 25 October 1994, with the intention to explore those areas where difficul ties might arise for the doctor from either a medical or a legal point of view, both as an informative exercise and in order to identify sub jects which might usefully be further examined.