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§ 4 — Boundaries of the field of expertise Standards Handwriting Examination (002.0)

Boundaries of the field of expertise

Described below are those tasks in which a handwriting examiner does not engage and which are excluded from the field of Handwriting Examination.

A handwriting examiner will make no further inferences or answer any questions as to the writer of a sample that is being analyzed other than those mentioned above.

A handwriting examiner will only express opinions based on handwriting samples written in a script type which falls within his expertise. For most European handwriting examiners, this will be Latin script (as opposed to for example Cyrillic or Arabic script). An exception may be made for signatures. Signatures can be legible (text-based) or illegible (stylized). Signatures in a script unfamiliar to the examiner can to some extent be processed like illegible signatures. The opinions of a handwriting examiner always have to be corroborated by reference to observable features in the writing trace.

A handwriting examiner must have sufficient knowledge to be able to decide whether the services of a document examiner are required.

The following activities emphatically do not belong to the field of expertise of handwriting examiners:

– formulating conclusions on any personality traits of the writer on the basis of his handwriting;

– formulating conclusions on the general or incidental mental or physical state of the writer on the basis of his handwriting;

– formulating conclusions on the basis of the linguistic features of a handwritten text. However, a handwriting examiner may describe spelling features and punctuation typicalities;

– formulating conclusions on samples collected from PCs. These require a specific expertise with a demonstrable experience.

Regeling
Standards Handwriting Examination (002.0)
Soort
ZBO-regeling
Geldend vanaf
12-12-2016
BWB-id
BWBR0039080
Versie
2016-12-12_0

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