Joint winner of the 2005 Walter Owen Book Prize (first edition)

Expert Evidence in Criminal Law: The Scientific Approach by Alan D. Gold is the first and only Canadian book on expert evidence entirely from a scientific perspective.

The book is written in plain language, making it easily accessible to lawyers and judges approaching the topic for the first time. At the same time, it contains all the principles and knowledge needed to expose bogus experts and junk science and to reduce inflated expert evidence to its proper valuation.

Everything from forensic identification evidence, including fingerprints and toolmarks, to psychological and psychiatric evidence, such as post traumatic stress syndrome, are discussed and evaluated according to the rules of science and the deficiencies and weaknesses of the evidence are demonstrated in detail.

The book has been thoroughly updated in this new edition to reflect developments in both the law and science.

Alan D. Gold practices at Alan D. Gold Professional Corporation, Barristers, in Toronto. He has argued hundreds of appeals, as well as over fifty cases in the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Gold is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in criminal litigation, and was the first chairperson of the Criminal Litigation Specialty Committee, a position he held for five years. In 1993, in Washington, DC, Mr. Gold was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers. He received the G. Arthur Martin Award for Contribution to Criminal Justice in November 1997. He is a past president of the Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association (1997–2001). Mr. Gold is a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, elected in May 2003 for a four-year term, and re-elected in May 2007 and May 2011. He was appointed by convocation as chair of the Hearing Panel on 26 June 2008, and has served in that position since.

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• Joint winner, Walter Owen Book Prize

"The reference to criminal law in the title of this book may be misleading. The book is essential reading for all civil litigators too."

Earl A. Cherniak, Q.C.

"Expert Evidence in Criminal Law: The Scientific Approach is without doubt... the most valuable book for criminal counsel and the judiciary to have been printed in the last few years."

Hon. Gilles Renault, For the Defence, January 2004