Judge scathing of ‘expert’ evidence in child’s brain injury case - Juta MedicalBrief

Judge scathing of ‘expert’ evidence in child’s brain injury case - Juta MedicalBrief

Medical experts who concluded – merely by looking at photographs – that a child had suffered brain injuries after a car accident, came under fire from an acting judge in the Gauteng High Court, who accused them of misleading the court and said this constituted “professional misconduct”, reports IOL. A neurosurgeon had testified that by looking at the pictures of the boy, six years after the accident, he could see that the child had swelling on h…