One of the many pitfalls that an expert witness will face is its legitimacy to stand as an expert witness. An expert witness will be closely examined by the judge. On their competency to provide legitimate information to the court. So the expert witness should instil confidence to the judge that they are a good expert witness and the information they give out to the court is trustworthy. So they should be always prepared when going to court so that the judge can have confidence in them.
An expert witness should also always act ethically according to their field of expertise. Ethically is to involve the interplay of three factors: belief, truth, and justification. Belief is a person's subjective position concerning the truth of a proposition. Truth is the reality of the proposition independent of belief.
Justification involves the quality of the reasons for a belief. To count as knowledge, something must be believed as true, it must be true, and a person's belief that …show more content…
Also another way the expert witness may be impeached may be based on the witness as a person, the opposing legal team may try to dig up information about the witnesses personally in order to delegitimize the person as an expert witness e.g. the lawyer may find out that the expert witness may be going through a divorce and now the expert witness is presiding over a divorce case, the lawyer may ask the court if or not does the divorce affect the conclusion of the expert witness. The court may ask, does the divorce affect the expert professionally. That is something expert witnesses should look out for when they are in