ABSTRACT
The technique of giving evidence is of considerable importance in the work of document examiners. Without the ability to convince the court of their conclusions, all the work they have done previously will be wasted. The evidence is essentially for the judge and jury, not for the counsel calling it, so the questions are best answered not to counsel, but to the jury or judge. Evidence on technical subjects needs to be appreciated by the jury. To present the evidence to its best advantage in the adversarial context of the courts, the expert requires the cooperation of the counsel introducing the evidence. For counsel introducing the testimony to do so in the most effective way, a conference with the expert is often helpful. In some, the whole of the evidence of the document examiner is contrary to the interests of the opposite side, and in others, only part of the evidence is in dispute.
