On the competence of forensic experts

Abstract

Different countries have different criteria to accept forensic expert in handwirting. It is anyway difficult to verify their moral, personal and professional qaulity. The problem resides mostly in how to control their personal and proffessional comptetences, acquired before and after their inscrition on the expert lists.

As a “person of special skills” the forensic expert is bound to bring through his findings a signifficant result in reflecting the truth by the judicial proces. Titles and proffesional diplomas are not always reflecting the expert’s adequate role in the investigation. It is absolutely neccesary in today’s scientific evolution to keep one’s level of preparation up-to-date.