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Criminal And Disciplinary Liability Of Experts Under Qatari Law (Part Two)

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As noted in Part One of this series, a person acting as an expert without registration in the Experts Roster bears criminal liability under the Law Regulating Expert Work No. 16 of 2017 ("Experts Law").

QatarCriminal Law
Ashraf Feshawi
Ashraf Feshawi

Criminal and Disciplinary Liability of Experts under Qatari Law (Part Two)1

(A Research Paper Presented at the Awareness and Cultural Seminar of the Qatari Association of Experts and Arbitrators)

Third: Practical Issues in Practising the Work of Experts Without Registration

As noted in Part One of this series, a person acting as an expert without registration in the Experts Roster bears criminal liability under the Law Regulating Expert Work No. 16 of 2017 ("Experts Law"). However, there are circumstances in which the person acting as an unregistered expert may not be held criminally liable.

One such circumstance is when a court or another entity specified under the Experts Law appoints an expert who is not registered in the Experts Roster at the Ministry of Justice ("Ministry"). Another circumstance is when an entity not specified under the Experts Law seeks the assistance of an unregistered expert to provide advisory expert work by issuing an independent

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