Abstract

ROJAS AGUILAR, Enriqueta; CHOTO DE CONTRERAS, Delmi Yanira  and  VASQUEZ RETANA, Rodrigo. The need of forensic expertise in Costa Rica. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2007, vol.24, n.1, pp.5-30. ISSN 2215-5287.

In this investigation the issue is stated from the expertise necessity’s point of view that the Costa Rican state has and how would it change the rendering of services before the approval of free commerce trades with other countries, known as TLC, if a privatization of the medical legal expertise is promoted, which implies a serious question: what would be the social impact en case that the medical legal expertise is privatized? Also it would be questioned the following matters: how to guarantee the custody chain with the privatization of the medical legal expertise and which have to be the functions of the Legal Medicine Department?

Keywords : Expertise necessity; TLC; privatization of the medical legal expertise; custody chain; Legal Medicine Department.

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