Abstract
Dedicated to expertise, this chapter echoes the complexity of the subject, complexity that stems from the lack of uniformity of the status of the expert in the world. There are two major legal systems, civil law (the majority of European countries) and common law (England, Wales, Australia, Canada except Québec, the United States except Louisiana). In the civil law system, the judge generally appoints the expert, while in the common law system, it is generally the parties. Depending on different legal and judicial systems, experts are subject to protean rules, involving multiple modes of intervention within the trial. The objective of the following paragraphs is therefore to extract the main axes that characterize each of the major judicial systems, without seeking to be exhaustive, and with the sole aim of better understanding the stakes.
Keywords
References
Autin S, Bussière C. Rapport de la commission de réflexion sur l’expertise. Ministère français de la justice; 2011. http://www.justice.gouv.fr/art_pix/rapp_com_reflextion_expertise.pdf
Dumoulin L. Le recours aux experts, un mode de rationalisation des pratiques judiciaires? Politiques et Management Public. 2005;23:145.
The future of civil judicial expertise in the European Union. State of play and proposals. Rapport Institut Européen de l’Expertise et de l’Expert (EEEI); 2012. http://www.experts-institute.eu/IMG/pdf/2012_06_28_rapport_final_eurexpertise.pdf : 14, 16, 187
Moussa T. Droit de l’Expertise. Paris: Dalloz; 2011. p. 614p.
French procedure rules. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCode.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006070716
Deshayes B, Jacquemin P. Good practice in civil judicial expertise in the European Union. Towards a European expertise. Brussels: Larcier; 2016. p. 268p.
French code of criminal procedure. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCode.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006071154
Civil procedure rules. https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil
Pinchon F. L’expertise judiciaire en Europe. Paris: Editions d’Organisation, Eyrolles; 2002. p. 448p.
German civil procedure rules. https://dejure.org/gesetze/ZPO
Rapport sur les systèmes judiciaires européens: efficacité et qualité de la justice. Commission Européenne pour l’Efficacité de la Justice (CEPEJ); 2014. https://www.coe.int/t/dghl/cooperation/cepej/evaluation/2014/Rapport_2014_fr.pdf
Criminal procedure rules. https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/criminal
L’expertise judiciaire civile dans l’UE: les règles et les pratiques nationales. Parlement européen, Direction Générale des politiques internes. 2015. http://www.experts-institute.eu/IMG/pdf/2015_06_17expertise_civile_ue_regles_et_pratiques_fr.pdf
Perjury Act. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/1-2/6
LegiGlobe pour une comparaison des frais de justice en Allemagne, Espagne, Italie, Royaume-Uni. http://legiglobe.rf2d.org/frais-de-justice/
Acknowledgment
Acknowledgments to Mrs. Garance Jubert for her help researching this paper.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer International Publishing AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Marie, S.B.S. (2018). Judicial Expertise in Europe. In: Rey-Salmon, C., Adamsbaum, C. (eds) Child Abuse. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65882-7_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65882-7_3
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-65881-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-65882-7
eBook Packages: MedicineMedicine (R0)