A general practitioner with extensive emergency department experience may be qualified to give expert opinion evidence on the life-threatening nature of spleen and brain injuries, notwithstanding the absence of specialist training. Where defence counsel deliberately acquiesces in an informal mode of proof of foundational facts for expert evidence for forensic advantage, and the trial judge gives appropriate directions about the quality of the evidence, the receipt of technically inadmissible evidence will not occasion a miscarriage of justice under s 668E(1) of the Criminal Code 1899 (Qld).
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