[H-GEN] Fwd: [research] Request for expert witness

[Paul Gearon]

On Jun 7, 2007, at 7:03 PM, andrew laidlaw wrote:

> Since this matter might well be before a court, I wonder if you  
> (or  anyone else for that matter) can confirm that the discussion  
> isn't in contempt of court?  Better to be on the safe side.

I have no idea.  I'm guessing that if I am, then I might just be able  
to pass the blame back onto the academic who posted it around the  
department in the first place.  :-)

Secondly, the letter didn't include much in the way of details, and  
didn't seem to imply that the case is before a court - yet.  It's  
just providing enough info to determine who would be a friendly  
expert witness.  That's all that I passed on, thinking someone might  
be interested, and trying to be helpful to Dr Carrington.

I'd expect that any possibility that contempt of court could occur  
would be due to the subsequent questions of ethics, who can do what,  
etc, that were all raised in later emails.  I didn't anticipate them,  
and would hope that I couldn't be blamed for them.

If I *could* end up in trouble, then I'd better not come back to  
Australia for a while.  That's not really a problem, as I can't  
afford it anyway.

Paul
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