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dc.contributor.author | Grech, J. L. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-27T10:40:01Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-27T10:40:01Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1975 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Grech, J. L. (1975). Medical testimony and the medical witness. Id-Dritt, 4, 44-51. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62691 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In preparing this brief talk on 'Medical testimony and the medical witness', I could not avoid recalling the prevalent view that the court is indeed the best friend of honest men. I find it difficult to reconcile this belief with the other view that 'The honest witness is the lawyer's easy prey' . It is probably this element of contrast, and the adoption of surprise tactics perhaps, that renders the box between bench and bar so uncomfortably restrictive. It is also perhaps a lack of adaptation mingled with a touch of unpreparedness that leads to such a poor show before a full and critical gallery. At times too, it is made pretty obvious that the important role the medical witness was to play had to be taken up only through force of circumstance, seemingly a last minute imposition, rather than out of a desire for the fulfilment of an onerous responsibility. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Għaqda Studenti tal-Liġi | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Medical ethics -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Witnesses -- Moral and ethical aspects | en_GB |
dc.subject | Evidence (Law) -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Evidence, Expert -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.title | Medical testimony and the medical witness | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | Id-Dritt | en_GB |
Appears in Collections: | Id-Dritt : Volume 04 : January 1975 Id-Dritt : Volume 04 : January 1975 |
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