Scientific Opinion is to clarify and make understandable the points that require expertise to be resolved in the Prosecutor’s Office or Court file, to support the claims of the parties with scientific data or to refute the opposing party’s claims contrary to science and science, to reveal the errors and contradictions in the expert report present in the file, to reveal the contradictions between more than one different expert reports, if any. eliminate etc. may be requested for certain purposes.
Litigation parties can obtain a Scientific Opinion report by directly applying to individuals or institutions with documented expertise in their field. There is no need for a request from the court or prosecutor’s office for this, and the parties can apply directly. There is no legal difference or superiority between the Scientific Opinion/Expert Opinion Report received by the parties from a person or institution designated by them and the report prepared by experts directly appointed by the Prosecutor’s Office or the Court. Both types of reports are considered among the “discretionary evidence” in the prosecutor’s office or court file, and although they have the ability to enlighten the court due to their informative nature explaining the event, the court is not obliged to comply with the expert report.
JURISTANBUL offers the preparation of Scientific Opinions in all required branches of law, especially Criminal Law and Administrative Law, with its consultant staff who are also academics at the leading universities of the country.