Verification of candidates for court experts in forensics on the example of the practice developed at the District Court in Poznan

Abstract

This article aims to establish the current practice of determining the qualifications of candidates for court experts. This is done on the example of the model developed by the District Court in Poznan on the basis of the author’s research. The study involved examination of personal files of court experts in forensics entered in the list kept by the President of the District Court in Poznan.
First, the standard model for determining the qualifications of candidates for  expert witnesses adopted by statute has been presented, and then the  qualifications of expert witnesses from the list and the manner of their  documentation by candidates examined. This is followed by an analysis of the manner in which the qualifications of candidate experts are verified by the President of the District Court in Poznan.