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Some Aspects Of Employment Experts In Criminal Adjective Law
Some Aspects Of Employment Experts In Criminal Adjective Law

Author(s): Milan Milošević, Almin Dautbegović
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Fakultet za poslovne studije i pravo
Keywords: criminal procedure; expert witness; professional consultant; specialist; witness-laymen

Summary/Abstract: The law of criminal procedure of the Republic of Serbia gives an explicit norm of an expert witness, professional consultant, the specialist and the witness, i.e., it does not differentiate between the witness possessing general knowledge and the witness-expert. There is a sharp legal division between the expert witness, the professional consultant, the specialist and the witness as specific subject and bearers of different functions in the procedure. This division is not influenced by the possibility of examining the expert witness and the specialist as ordinary witnesses in the same criminal case, that is , by the possibility to appoint the witness and the specialist successively as expert by the possibility to appoint the witness and the specialist as ordinary witness and the specialist successively as expert witnesses, no by the possibility that the facts contained in the statement of the witness and the specialist become the subject of expert of expert witness’s investigation.

  • Issue Year: 4/2014
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 119-123
  • Page Count: 5