Legal Framework Governing Expert Testimony → Module 1 Activity & Knowledge Check : Source hierarchy and admissibility architecture

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Module 1 - Source hierarchy and admissibility architecture
4 Items
Identify the controlling legal sources and organize the threshold questions governing whether and how expert opinion may be received.
Module 2 - Qualification, independence, instructions and disclosure
4 Items
Establish suitable expertise, impartial conduct and transparent information flows before opinion work begins.
Module 3 - Opinion formation, reports and evidential reliability
4 Items
Build opinions that expose facts, assumptions, methods, reasoning, uncertainty and limitations for meaningful testing.
Module 4 - Conferences, testimony, challenge and correction
4 Items
Respond professionally to court-managed expert processes, questioning and post-report change without becoming an advocate.
Applied case study - Blue Haven Renewable Energy Ltd v Calypso Port Services Ltd
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This is an original fictional scenario developed for FCPAS. Any resemblance to an actual person, organisation or event is coincidental.
- 5.1
  Blue Haven Renewable Energy Ltd v Calypso Port Services Ltd
Glossary & References
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- 6.1
  Glossary & References
Legal Framework Governing Expert Testimony : Final assessment
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The final assessment is additional to the 240 credited learning minutes. A score of at least 80% is required.
- 7.1
  Legal Framework Governing Expert Testimony : Final assessment
  1 Hour10 Questions