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#THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION TRIAL#
And for those who were convicted as a result of a trial involving Mr. Ager has been removed from the National Crime Agency's list of approved experts, but the impact of the findings in this case and the judge's comments is likely to be costly and time-consuming.
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Ager appeared in as an expert witness and it will consider any action once those cases have been fully reviewed. The CPS has said it is reviewing past cases to identify those Mr. Ager had already appeared as an expert witness for the prosecution in at least 20 other cases. He had received no training and attended no courses. He had little or no understanding of the duties of an expert. In closing the case, the judge said: " Andrew Ager is not an expert of suitable calibre.He did not consider it his duty to bring facts to the court's attention which might assist the defence.He had made no notes of his workings and he had kept sensitive material provided by the police in a cupboard under the stairs, which had been damaged by a "leak".Ager had cut and pasted the same evidence for several different cases.He had not read any books on carbon credits, although he had once watched a documentary on the topic.He did not hold a degree and could not remember if he had passed his A-levels. He had no relevant academic qualifications.Some of the things that emerged from the cross-examination were: The defence sought to cross-examine Mr Ager in a voir dire before he gave evidence to the jury. Suspicions arose in relation to Mr Ager after he contacted the defence expert witness and apparently attempted to dissuade him from giving evidence. Ager was relied on by the prosecution to show that the defendants must have known they were asking investors to buy a product that was essentially worthless. The prosecution offered no evidence against eight defendants accused of running a £7 million carbon-emission credits scam after the defence were able to identify a number of fundamental problems with prosecution's expert witness, Andrew Ager. But, in the real world, last month we saw the latest discrediting of an expert witness who had been used by the prosecution in a number of fraud trials. Many will be aware of Agatha Christie's popular and much-adapted tale involving a witness for the prosecution whose evidence is undermined.