IT COURT EXPERT BETWEEN SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS

Abstract

Accepting expertise in IT, the court expert encounters with numerous: moral, professional, and is understood by objective problems. In this paper we will try to explain the mentioned problems by offering solutions from our own experience. The first problem is to get a job, then to do the job, and the third, to charge the services. This job is primarily obtained through courts. Experts also suggest individuals – participants in the judicial process: the defendants, prosecutors and/or their plenipotentiaries. The parties (the respondent and/or the prosecutor) may for various reasons not accept expert witnesses suggested by someone past them. For this work to be successfully realized, already mentioned at the beginning of this text, the expert has to master numerous Scylla and Charybdis. Still, a typical problem for the Serbian judiciary in relation to experts is payment, or rather - non-payment. According to Derikonjic, courts owe the experts about half a million euros. And if they are paid out, because of the inflation, because of the rules "better today thousand, then for a year - ten thousand", experts are constantly in trouble. A particular problem is realistic valuation - the valorization of someone's work in the artificial experiment. Let's agree that IT is an expertise in the domain of high-tech crime where the highest possible level of expertise - knowledge is required. How to pay this knowledge?