Sentences with phrase «evidence in legal contexts»

The Program is committed to assessing emerging legal issues related to science and technology, promoting the use of scientific evidence in legal contexts, and providing expert assistance to the legal community through a variety of projects and activities.

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Indeed, in her review of evidence, in the context of clarifying customary international law, the international judge should not restrict her search to, for instance, only legal systems which share a common ideological basis.

But in a legal context, it's often rational to conclude that when a legally significant event is followed by a result, that result probably flowed from the event.177 For example, a criminal defendant could claim her medication prevented her guilty plea from being knowingly and voluntarily made.178 It sounds reasonable, but absent evidence that the medication affected the defendant's cognitive function, it's spurious.

Here is a recently published article on context and the interpretation of legal evidence: Lange et al. on Contextual Biases in the Interpretation of Auditory Evidence (2010), http://j.mevidence: Lange et al. on Contextual Biases in the Interpretation of Auditory Evidence (2010), http://j.mEvidence (2010), http://j.mp/d7fBKR

However, while there may be no statistical evidence demonstrating that a forced revision of the junior doctor contract will have any impact on hospital mortality; experienced legal practitioners in the health sector will readily acknowledge «the weekend effect», although not necessarily in the context of patient deaths.

The Council and Commission therefore had an obligation «to take into account the evidence, submitted by the producer concerned, of the real factual, legal and economic context in which it operates» (para. 78).

[81] When I consider this evidence within the context of the legal principles to which I have referred, I conclude the plaintiff has established a loss of earning capacity to the date of the trial which is causally related to the injuries sustained in the Accident.

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One such issue is the perennial persistence of shoddy medico - legal «expert» opinion evidence in the Ontario auto insurance (personal injury) context.

Swiss prosecution authorities may request legal assistance from foreign jurisdictions and thus obtain documents and other evidence in the context of pending criminal proceedings.