This chapter investigates the knowledge, attitude and the perceived importance of legal professionals towards the role of linguists as expert witnesses in Malawi. This is a multidisciplinary study, which brings together the field of law, linguistics and psychology. The work of linguists as expert witnesses (also known as forensic linguists) can first be attributed to Jan Svartvik in 1986, when he analysed statements of Timothy Evans who was hanged for the murder of his wife and a baby. The analysis Jan Svartvik
made, demonstrated that disputed and incriminating parts of a series of four statements, which were made to the police officers by Timothy Evans about the death of his wife and daughter, had a grammatical style different from that of uncontested parts of the statements (Coulthard & Johnson, 2007). The work of the linguist helped the court to pardon Timothy Evans posthumously. Since then, the frequency at which courts around the world have called upon linguist experts (forensic linguists) to provide their professional knowledge in disputes, and help answer questions that are centred on the language of both written and oral texts has increased tremendously in the past two decades.