The text should also state whether the parties are entitled to have their own expert and whether they have the possibility of putting questions to the expert.

What this means is terms of this framework decision is that a sentence previously handed down in state A may not be taken into account in a new criminal trial in state B if the relevant act was not a punishable offence in B under that state’s own laws. Since this can, ultimately, be determined only by, for example, a judge in state B repeating the whole proceedings from state A complete with the collection of evidence – which would involve such things as re-interviewing witnesses and would be neither desirable nor workable – it must be sufficient that he should have good reason to doubt that the act was punishable.

3. Notes that the judges and prosecutors have failed to respect the rights of the defence and due process by refusing to allow defence witnesses to be questioned;

We have an expectation for both comprehensive studies and major screenings we're involved with that there will be a public outreach program, not just of newsletters, but that there will be public meetings, at which time the experts will be accessible to members of the public (1035) Mrs. Karen Kraft Sloan: But it's a little different when the proponent or the agency or your commission is putting forward information, and I don't think that engenders a high level of comfort. It's a different situation, whereby independent, and certainly perceived to be independent, witnesses and experts come before a panel review and there is this free give ...[+++] and take on examination and cross-examination, so that a lot of individuals who may not have the time, the motivation, or the ability, what have you, to get through these hugely technical documents can sit and hear independent witnesses questioned.

We also have in Great Britain a Children's Select Committee able to investigate child abuses and to interrogate expert witnesses.

Or when it is maintained that the witness or expert witness – and not simply the defendant – should have a counsel at their side during examination via a video or telephone link.