From: billy@anon.com 
  
 "billy bookcase"  wrote in message news:... 
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 > "Handsome Jack"  wrote in message 
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 >>There is a theory that her counsel considered that the prosecution's main 
 >> expert witness had been so discredited that there was little chance of a 
 >> conviction. So it was safer not to put up his own experts, there being 
 >> always a possibility that one of them will screw up under questioning. 
 > 
 > The judgement in another case, which totally undermined Evans credibility 
 > did indeed emerge during the case. 
 > 
 > However when the Defence requested a Hearing, all such evidence was ruled 
 > inadmissible by HH Justice Goss; and the Defence were prevented from 
 > putting it to the Jury. 
 > 
 > Whether or not that damning judgement received any publicity, no doubt the 
 > Judge will have stressed to the jury their duty to try the case solely on 
 the 
 > evidence presented in Court; and not what they may have read in the 
 > Newspapers 
  
 I stand corrected. 
  
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 Lord Justice Jackson, in a different civil case. He dismissed Evans€s 
 report as €worthless€ and stated that Evans had breached his expert€s 
 duty by deciding on an outcome he wanted, then €working out an 
 explanation€ to achieve it. 
  
 €Of greatest concern,€ Jackson wrote in the decision, €Dr Evans makes 
 no effort to provide a balanced opinion.€ The judge said Evans had 
 either not taken steps to inform himself about other medical experts€ 
 conclusions, or he had disregarded them. €Either approach amounts 
 to a breach of proper professional conducT 
  
 Myers applied for Evans€s evidence in the Letby prosecution to be 
 disregarded, but the trial judge, Mr Justice Goss, refused, and 
 said instead that Myers could make the jury aware of the judgment, 
 and question Evans about it. 
  
 There followed a fractious exchange about the report, which Evans 
 said was only a letter to a solicitor that he did not expect to go 
 before the court. 
  
 Myers challenged Evans that €working out an explanation€ was €precisely 
 what you were doing in this [Letby] case at various points€. Evans 
 denied that, maintained that he had provided his clinical opinion 
 of the babies€ deaths and collapses, and told Myers he was being 
 €rather insulting€. 
  
 In May, the court of appeal refused Letby€s application for permission 
 to appeal; the judges upheld Goss€s decision to retain Evans in the 
 trial, said Evans did have the €requisite expertise€ and dismissed 
 concerns about impartiality. 
  
 unquote 
  
 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/20/my-kind-of-case- 
 ntense-focus-falls-on-lucy-letby-trial-expert-witness 
  
  
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