The same legal regulations applied for medical doctors involved in patients treatment, also refer to doctors that do not manage therapy, but whose professional activity is essential for providing adequate diagnostics. this group of professionals include pathologists, which is proven by the actual forensic practice. In modern medicine, the role of pathologists is of extreme importance in the diagnostics of many diseases. In this paper, based on presentation of particular cases from the forensic practice and literature data, the possible forms of mistakes in the work of pathologists and their associates are shown, as well as the causes and the consequences of such mistakes, together with the characteristics of the legal procedures and the significance of adequate medicolegal expertise in these cases.

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