Discussion of the Current Laws and Draft Laws Regarding Medical Experts

The lack of precise regulations relating to medical experts makes one consider the current laws (i.e. the directive on court experts of 24 Jan 2005) and the respective draft law of 2006 regarding the introduction of a law on experts in court proceedings and other types of proceedings conducted by virtue of the law. Among other issues, the article discusses unawareness in the area of counselling rules, lack of sufficient knowledge of legal issues and lack of cooperation between lawyers and doctors. The discussed draft envisages a body of interesting solutions, and the very idea of amending the binding laws is commendable (even if one considers proposals regarding verification of advisory bodies, obligatory knowledge of relevant laws, collective supervision, or ad hoc restriction of an expert - the latter justified in practice). Nevertheless, the question of political involvement of an expert (under supervision of Law Minister) remains unanswered. Has work on the draft in question been justly stopped, then