#1380 DGFS level 7 - for development? change request deferred

this is a placeholder CR to note that there are more senior Digital Forensics skills that provide an external commentary, policy making or expert witness role. How does SFIA show this? Does another skill cover it and need adjustment?

Proposed change applies to Digital forensics

Current status of this request: deferred

What we decided

"An expert witness, particularly in common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, is a person whose opinion by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience, is accepted by the judge as an expert. The judge may consider the witness's specialized (scientific, technical or other) opinion about evidence or about facts before the court within the expert's area of expertise, to be referred to as an "expert opinion". Expert witnesses may also deliver "expert evidence" within the area of their expertise. Their testimony may be rebutted by testimony from other experts or by other evidence or facts. "

Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_witness

This does imply something beyond a SFIA level 5 - it implies the expertise is recognised outside the organisation and in fact enough to influence/determine legal proceedings.

Defer to see if there is industry demand for this level of expertise to be reflected in SFIA descriptions.