'Duties of an Expert Witness – before and after the Ikarian Reefer' - Lord Clarke: CULS Lecture
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Lord Clarke of the UK Supreme Court spoke about "Duties of an Expert Witness – before and after the Ikarian Reefer" on Thursday 28 January 2016 at the Faculty of Law, as a guest on the regular CULS speaker programme.
Lord Clarke read economics and law at King's College, Cambridge, before being called, in 1965, to the Bar at Middle Temple where he spent 27 years. He became a QC in 1979, and was a Recorder sitting in both criminal and civil courts from 1985 to 1992. Lord Clarke was promoted to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in 1998 and sworn of the Privy Council. Thereafter, he conducted the Marchioness and Bowbelle Inquiries. Between 2005 and 2009, Lord Clarke served as Master of the Rolls, and was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in October 2009. He is the first Justice to be appointed directly to The Supreme Court. This event was kindly Sponsored by Simmons & Simmons. For more information see the CULS website at: https://culs.org.uk |
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| Created: | 2016-01-29 16:18 |
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| Collection: | Cambridge University Law Society Speakers |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Mr D.J. Bates |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Abstract: | The Ikarian Reefer case concerned a Panamanian vessel that caught fire in 1993 and remains important as signaling a shift in the role of expert evidence in litigation. Especially for law students this event is of particular interest, as it sheds light on the role that evidence plays in practice – a fundamental element of the law that is often neglected in sophisticated academic argument.
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