Preface. Expert Witnesses in Civil Litigation: Use of this Handbook

• Author: John Hollander
• Pages: 11-13

expert witnesses in civil litigation: use of this handbook

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preface

Expert Witnesses in Civil

Litigation: Use of this

Handbook

   the eighth in the Young Advocates

Series (YAS). ese handbooks are not intended to be

comprehensive studies of the specic titled subject. ey

are training manuals, rather than legal reference books. If

the reader can glean a few ideas from each chapter, then

the handbook will be a success.

Readers are encouraged to review and digest two

other handbooks in the YAS, specically Case Analysis

(what questions to ask) and Examinations in Civil Trials

(how to ask those questions). Doing so will give context

to the examples for case analysis in each chapter.

is handbook departs from the YAS template in a

few respects:

•       

   . Judges and masters are excel-

1 John Hollander, Case Analysis: The Critical Path to Persuasion

(Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014), online: www.irwinlaw.com/titles/

case-analysis.

2 John Hollander, Examinations in Civil Trials: The Formula for

Success (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2015), online: www.irwinlaw.com/

titles/examinations-civil-trials.