IAFL guidelines
Definition
The professional standards issued by the International Association of Forensic Linguists for practitioners acting as expert witnesses, covering independence, disclosure, competence, and transparency.
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- Daubert standard
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- Duty to the court
- The obligation of expert witnesses in UK proceedings (and, to varying degrees, in other jurisdictions) to assist the court with objective, unbiased...
- Frye standard
- The US legal test for admissibility of scientific evidence, originating from Frye v. United States (1923), which required that a technique be...
- Validation
- The process of establishing through systematic testing that a method does what it claims to do, within defined conditions and with a...
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- Ethics, Quality Standards, and Expert Witness PracticeThe professional standards issued by the International Association of Forensic Linguists for practitioners acting as expert witnesses, covering independence, d...