Mentally ill offenders referred for psychiatric examination in Japan: Descriptive statistics of a university unit of forensic assessment

‘The witness who saw, /he left little doubt’: a comparative consideration of expert testimony in mental disability law cases in common and civil law systems

“…In Italy, an expert must accept a court appointment and neither psychological nor behavioural tests are allowed as parts of psychiatric examinations (Corso, 1993). In Japan, Satsumi and Oda (1995) found that experts can be retained by the prosecution, the defence, or by the court (Simon & AhnRedding, 2006). In Germany, although court-chosen witnesses may be called to testify, party-selected witnesses cannot testify at all (Timmerbeil, 2003).…”