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Expert Evidence in Criminal Law: The Scientific Approach by Alan D. Gold is the first and only Canadian book on expert evidence entirely from a scientific perspective.\n\nThe book is written in plain language, making it easily accessible to lawyers and judges approaching the topic for the first time. At the same time, it contains all the principles and knowledge needed to expose bogus experts and junk science and to reduce inflated expert evidence to its proper valuation.\n\nEverything from forensic identification evidence, including fingerprints and toolmarks, to psychological and psychiatric evidence, such as post-traumatic stress syndrome, are discussed and evaluated according to the rules of science and the deficiences and weaknesses of the evidence are demonstrated in detail.\n\nThe book has been thoroughly updated in this new edition to reflect developments in both the law and science.

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Expert Evidence in Criminal Law: The Scientific Approach is without doubt... the most valuable book for criminal counsel and the judiciary to have been printed in the last few years. --Hon. Gilles Renault, For the Defence, January 2004 The reference to criminal law in the title of this book may be misleading. The book is essential reading for all civil litigators too. --Earl A. Cherniak, Q.C.

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Alan D. Gold practises criminal law at the trial and appellate levels and has appeared as counsel before all levels of courts in Ontario, as well as in other provinces, and in the Supreme Court of Canada. He is a member and past president of the Criminal Lawyers' Association, and an inductee of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers (US). Mr. Gold is one of Canada's most respected commentators on criminal law matters.

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