See Hollington v. Hewthorne and Co. Ltd. (1945) KB 587.
2.
See Folkes v. Chadd (1782) Eng. Rep. 509, Vo. 99; 3 Doug. KB 157.
3.
See Learned Hand: Historical and Practical considerations Regarding Expert Testimony. 15 HLR 40, 1901.
4.
A series of Admiralty cases in the early 20th century made this point, followed by several patent cases. See Goodwin Jones C. 1984, ibid.
5.
See WynneB.Rationality and Ritual, 1980.
6.
See WynneB. ibid.
7.
See R. v. Gilgellan (1984) C. Crim. Appeal.
8.
9.
Both Sir Bernard Spilsbury and A. Susanne Taylor were subjected to public criticism of the type more recently levelled at Dr Clift. The phenomenon is thus neither new nor idiosyncratic; it is, rather, symptomatic of the public image of the forensic scientist as an ‘ideal man of science’.
