Expert ethics

The role of the principles that should be followed by experts, who have an important place in judicial activity, and the ability of these principles to solve problems experienced in practice will be discussed in this study in which the application of expert ethics in civil procedural law will be described. The study consists of two parts: In the first part, the place and importance of the expert in judicial activity will be mentioned; after that, the definition and legal nature of the expert will be discussed; the relationship of the expert's activity with some rights and principles that are dominant in judicial law will be discussed and the place of the basic and ethical principles specific to the expert witness will be mentioned. Under this heading, an emphasis will be put on the fact that the experts have to distinguish between their own duties and the duties of the judge or the parties within the framework of the principles prevailing in being an expert. Then, the title of ethical principles will be introduced under which the meaning and importance of ethical principles will be emphasized, the comparison of ethics with similar concepts will be made, and our main subject, the appearance forms of expert ethics will be briefly mentioned. In the second part of the study, the ethics of the expert in general and the necessity to act in accordance with these ethical principles will be mentioned; whether the experts should be warned in advance regarding the sanctions that they will face in case of a violation of an ethical principle will be discussed. Then, the question of how experts should act in case of a conflict between expert ethics and experts' own professional ethical principles will be reviewed. Afterwards, the importance of the oath in terms of expert ethics will be mentioned and the ethical principles that constitute our main study will be discussed one by one.