Cultural Expertise and Litigation: Patterns, Conflicts, Narratives

Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses the role of social scientists as a source of expert evidence, and is a product of their experiences and observations of cases involving litigants of South Asian origin. What is meant in court by "culture," "custom" and "law"? How are these concepts understood by witnesses, advocates, judges and litigants? How far are cross-cultural understandings facilitated - or obscured - in the process? What strategies are adopted? And which ones turn out to be successful in court? How is cultural understanding – and misunderstanding – produced in these circumstances? And how, moreover, do the decisions in these cases not only reflect, but impact, upon the law and the legal procedure? Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses these questions, as it elicits the patterns, conflicts and narratives that characterize the legal role of social scientists in a variety of de facto plural settings – including immigration and asylum law, family law, citizenship law and criminal law.Additional ISBNs9780415815260, 9781283151238, 9781136735172, 9781136735226, 9780203818305Cultural Expertise and Litigation: Patterns, Conflicts, Narratives 1st Edition is written by Holden, Livia and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Cultural Expertise and Litigation are 9781136735219, 1136735216 and the print ISBNs are 9780415601566, 0415601568. Additional ISBNs include 9780415815260, 9781283151238, 9781136735172, 9781136735226, 9780203818305.