Doctors have renewed calls for the role of the expert witness to berevised, after child abuse expert Professor Sir Roy Meadow was struckoff the medical register last week.
Sir Alan Craft, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and ChildHealth, said the move should be urgently implemented.
The General Medical Council found Meadow guilty of serious professionalmisconduct after he gave evidence in three child murder trials in whichit was later decided the mothers had been wrongly convicted.
A spokesman for the Society of Expert Witnesses said a pre-trialstatement agreed between both parties would reduce the reliance on thepersonality of the witness to present evidence.
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