What may be worse, however, is allowing court-appointed experts to become de facto arbiters of truth.

And they criticized court-appointed experts, including the psychologists and psychiatrists who play a big role in courtrooms.

The "science trial" to determine whether the injury claims have medical grounds would take place before a jury, with testimony limited to court-appointed experts.

In 2008, a court-appointed expert issued a report accusing Texaco employees of not only widespread pollution, but deforestation and cultural destruction as well.

Thus, the use of court-appointed experts is a device that should be used only if all parties agree to it.

The price of the collection was determined by a court-appointed expert in 1995 to be 1,700,000 SKK.

Most importantly, however, the Texas courts did not afford Panetti an opportunity to refute the opinions of the court-appointed experts.

And he says the rest of the picture portrayed by the court-appointed experts, who tracked cases between July 1996 and March 1997, is an old one.

An April 2008 report by court-appointed experts estimated that Kercher died between 8:55 pm and 12:50 am.

The case was in recess for two years while five court-appointed experts studied the group's beliefs and religious practices, measuring them against the law's requirements.