jury

In the American sys­tem (and, per­haps to a lesser extent, in all coun­tries fol­low­ing the Anglo-American legal approach), sci­ence and sci­en­tific evi­dence emerges and is inter­preted through the actions of the par­ties involved. Expert wit­nesses tes­tify for a par­tic­u­lar side, and are employed by a par­tic­u­lar side.