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Cross-Disciplinary Assessment: Bringing Law Students And Expert Witnesses Together, Judith M. Marychurch

Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)

This paper will discuss the author’s experience in instituting an innovative cross-disciplinary assessment task between undergraduate LLB Evidence students and postgraduate Master of Forensic Accounting (MFA) students, in which students participate in a mock witness examination. LLB students act as legal counsel, conducting examination and cross-examination of postgraduate students acting as expert forensic accounting witnesses.