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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Expert evidence"”.
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Does expert evidence pertaining to battered woman syndrome influence juror verdicts?
This research investigated whether expert evidence pertaining to Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) influences juror verdicts the legal requirements of self defence (imminence, proportionality and an attempt to retreat from the situation) are generally not met in cases where battered women kill their …
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Expert Evidence, Juries and the Search for Truth: A Case Study Analysis
… of justice involving flawed or misused expert evidence. This thesis attempts to answer the question “Does the situation with regard to the admissibility and presentation of expert evidence inhibit the courts from assessing such evidence in a rational manner, and does the system prevent …
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Assessing the use of DNA expert evidence, by justice system participants, in Ontario criminal courts
What happens to forensic DNA opinion evidence when the expert witness is not present in the courtroom? Research addressing this issue has largely been focused on polling lawyers regarding their perceptions of DNA evidence, as well as studies of juror understanding of DNA expert evidence in real and …
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Közgazdasági módszerek a jogalkalmazásban és a szabályozásban = Economic tests and expert evidence in antitrust enforcement
A dolgozat tematikája a szabályozás felől halad a jogalkalmazás felé, és három irányból járul hozzá a szabályozással és a jogalkalmazással kapcsolatos ismeretek bővüléséhez. Az elemzések során matematikai (elsősorban játékelméleti) modellek segítségével vonunk le közgazdasági jellegű …
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Exploring Medical Expert Testimony and its Contribution to Miscarriages of Justice An Examination of the Flawed Pathological Evidence of Dr Charles Smith
… but specific concern with the use of medical expert evidence in criminal trials is especially timely. With the recent Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario, it has become clear that flawed medical expert evidence can have devastating effects on individuals and criminal trials. …
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Person Identification in a Legal Setting
… to optimise identification from CCTV images, expert evidence based on forensic image comparison may be provided in court. However, forensic image comparison techniques suffer from a major shortcoming. There is a lack of scientific evidence to support their use. The focus of this thesis is on …
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A Framework for the Systematic Evaluation of Malware Forensic Tools
… miscarriages of justice linked to questionable expert evidence, the post of the Forensic Science Regulator was created in 2008 with a remit to improve the standard of practitioner competences and forensic procedures. It has since moved to incorporate a greater level of scientific practice in …
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Interpreting Forensic Trace Evidence using Multi-Elemental and Spectroscopic Data
… are often invited to courts to present expert evidence. They have a duty to perform precise and accurate evidence analysis. Accessibility to the techniques like LIBS, LA-ICP-MS and Raman Microscopy that generate multivariate spectroscopic data, has necessitated the need for advanced …
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Forensic collision investigation: finding the order within the chaos
… Community, The Wider Demographic and The Expert Witness. It covers a 15-year career of the work of a Forensic Collision Investigator responsible for the investigation of road traffic collisions resulting in catastrophic injuries or fatalities. Included in the thesis is the development of a …
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A study of the detrimental impact of rape mythologies and victim stereotypes in the application of character evidence in jury trials in England and Wales
… brought about by the presentation of certain evidence in rape trials and to utilise the psychological research behind cognition and perception to help explain why it is important that the law re-examine how it handles these topics. It is the combination of science with law and society that …
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The relationship between the social licence and law in the context of the Scottish fracking debate: a textual, thematic and comparative analysis of environmental and planning law governing onshore oil and gas authorisations in Scotland.
… of "social licence" for the activity, despite expert evidence that the activity could be safely regulated. As the social licence is commonly conceived of as non-legal, the Scottish Government's reliance upon the concept as part of its rationale for banning fracking merits legal analysis. …
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El dictamen pericial: criterios de valoración y su motivación en la sentencia civil
Se investigan los criterios con los que se valora la prueba pericial en el proceso civil, analizando la forma en que éstos son utilizados y motivados por los órganos jurisdiccionales en la sentencia. Se sistematizan tomando por base jurisprudencia española reciente, así como algunos de los …
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Identifying and enhancing forensic science skills in the investigation and prosecution of war criminals within international proceedings
… and exhume mass graves; producing powerful evidence of atrocities and returning victims to loved ones. It is even possible to establish the crime of genocide by identifying the attributes of the victims which made them perceived targets, for example their ethnicity or ancestry. However, …
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Subjetividade na interpretação dos dispositivos das sentenças judiciais e seus efeitos na perícia contábil em cumprimento de sentença
… criteria and methods in the production of expert evidence. This study used a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach to analyze how subjectivity resulting from gaps in judicial rulings impacts forensic accounting in sentence enforcement proceedings in the civil courts of Natal/RN between …
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Pathological vs non-pathological incapacity: are the differences in requirements and consequences justified?
… where the burden of proof lies; whether expert evidence is required or not; the tests for each defence; the subjective versus objective approach to capacity and, ultimately, the consequences of a successful defence in either situation. A comparison between the South African formulation of …
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An Interface between science and law: What is science for members of New Zealand's Environment Court?
… their understanding of science and of scientific evidence. This research also aims to locate those individual models of science within a wider philosophical discourse concerning the nature of science. The research adopts a qualitative and interpretive approach that focuses on understanding the …
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The incommensurability of the archaic perceptions of the maxim res ipsa loquitur in medical negligence litigation
… in simple cases where there is uncontradicted evidence sufficient to establish a prima facie case. However, it is argued that the South Africa Appellate Division's rejection of the doctrine in the context of medical negligence in 1924 remains justified. It is sometimes thought that the doctrine …
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Digging the dirt: a comparative analysis of excavation methods and recording systems in relation to their applications in forensic archaeology.
… used in the recovery of human remains and other evidence in the service of legal cases for many years. However, established approaches will in future be subject to closer scrutiny following the announcement by the Law Commission in 2011 that expert evidence will in future be subject to a new …
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