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A normal witness can only testify about what they have seen / heard personally not make inferences from it. So, if you hold up a bullet to the average witness all they could say was, 'it looks like a bullet.' If you started saying, 'oh this is a 22 calibre and looking at the deformation I can see it hit something hard like metal or body armer' the judge would stop you. Now if you were recognised as an expert witness in guns, you would be allowed to give that testimony.

so its more of a data analyst rather than a witness?

An expert witness is not a fabricated witness. They are an expert who is brought in to look at evidence and give an opinion on it. A forensic specialist is a common type of expert witness. But you also get psycologists acting as expert witnesses. Very relivent in lawsuits involving autism where they may have to testify as to the effects autism can have on peoples actions etc.

Asuming you are looking for a UK expert witness:

• You could look at advertisments in New Law Journal and Solicitor's Journal
• try an expert winess directory, here are just a few that came up on google
  • https://thesolicitorsgroup.co.uk/directory/expert-witnesses-directory
  • https://www.apil.org.uk/expert-witnesses-directory
  • https://www.yourexpertwitness.co.uk/expert-witness-directory
  • https://portal.bps.org.uk/Psychologist-Search/Directory-of-Expert-Witnesses
• just google.

well if your already a lawyer/barrister you know more on law than us so you should be fine.

as for a witness you cant fabricate a witness and i doubt any of us was there to witness the event. so we by law cannot be a witness to something we didnt witness.