Sentences with phrase «of unreliable evidence»

However, the danger is that, as the private prosecution industry grows, and sometimes questionable claims are made about the benefits of private prosecutions, or the circumstances in which they should be used, more private prosecutions are brought on the basis of unreliable evidence and / or for abusive reasons.

Not exact matches

BPI will have to produce «extreme» evidence that the network acted irresponsibly, such as proof that their research used obviously unreliable sources, said University of Wisconsin journalism professor Bob Drechsel, who teaches media law.

However, the vast majority of evidence suggests that P / E ratios are an unreliable way to measure the true value of stocks.

Although as mentioned before the data is hopelessly lagged, completely untransparent and unreliable at the best of times, the anecdotal evidence is piling up.

Besides, much eyewitness evidence is highly unreliable, as demonstrated by the hundreds of death row inmates who, in recent decades, they're convicted by eyewitness testimony and later exonerated by DNA analysis.

A general lack of pace, a distinct lack of sharpness and yet more evidence of a profoundly unreliable first touch.

Third, Barnhart ignores the wealth of evidence that eyewitness testimony is inherently unreliable.

January 1 - The English Football Association report following the investigation that Liverpool forward Luis Suarez racially abused Manchester United's Patrice Evra has accused the Uruguayan of giving «unreliable» evidence.

In more recent centuries it was held that there were other reasons as well, mainly that it placed limits on the use of coercion and police abuse, and forced courts to look at evidence more than possibly unreliable confessions.

Umar also noted that the evidence of the first prosecution witness, Mr. Michael Wetkas, an operative of the EFCC, was unreliable.

Examining a person for evidence of a bat bite is unreliable, because a bat bite can be no bigger than a needle prick.

Yet a growing body of evidence suggests that much online health information is unreliable.

This was the message I heard at the Forensic Science Research Evaluation Workshop held May 26 — 27 at the AAAS headquarters in Washington, D.C. I spoke about pseudoscience but then listened in dismay at how the many fields in the forensic sciences that I assumed were reliable (DNA, fingerprints, and so on) in fact employ unreliable or untested techniques and show inconsistencies between evaluators of evidence.

In fact «A review of 12 randomized controlled trials published in The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in 2011 found only «very unreliable» evidence that flossing might reduce plaque after one and three months.

(There is a growing body of evidence that shows using student test scores to evaluate teachers is unreliable.

There is a large body of growing evidence, however, that suggests these evaluation models are unreliable at identifying teachers who are actually good at getting students to learn the things they should be learning.

Most importantly, Dr. Darling - Hammond states that evaluation should include evidence of student learning but from sources other than standardized tests, and she rejects growth measures such as SGPs and Value - Added Models because of the ever increasing research base that says they are unreliable and create poor incentives in education.

For now, the state will continue the problematic strategy of giving teachers «value added measurement» (VAM) scores based on their students» test results — despite widespread evidence that VAM scores are both unreliable and unfair.

If you are using internet as the key mean for information gathering, you are at risk of using unreliable materials, falsehoods and unproved evidence.

Despite the lack of evidence, some unreliable sources claim sprinkling salt on carpets will kill fleas.

Hard to tell really since the source seems to be a French video games magazine posting about it on Twitter, and there have been an awful lot of unreliable rumours about new games posted in foreign language publications (see many Japanese magazines posting rumours about the 3DS without any evidence behind them).

She has borrowed the tapestry version that normally hangs in the United Nations building — the tapestry that was notoriously covered over when, in the run - up to the invasion of Iraq, Colin Powell addressed the UN and presented his unreliable evidence.

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

The evidence illustrates loss and damage around barriers and limits to adaptation: growing food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water supplies, deteriorating human welfare and increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).

Wrong — it's not that computer models are «bad» — it's that they're 1) incomplete, 2) fail to have the predictive power that's claimed for them, 3) model outputs are not «evidence» but only representations of what would be evidence IF the climate were programmed to match the models, 4) unvalidated and therefore unreliable.

Email continues to be the heart of our cyber-identities, but as evidenced by recent jaw - dropping headlines it remains insecure, unreliable, and easily readable by an attacker.

Second, the contamination of the DNA evidence by the crime lab renders it completely unreliable.

That evidence can be weak, it can be unreliable, it can come nowhere close to the quality of evidence needed to sustain a conviction.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Mr Big stings can produce unreliable evidence.

These exceptions are made in the case of contemporaneous medical records that, while subject to being attacked as unreliable by opposing litigants, can speak to pertinent facts for which no other evidence exists; for example, the notes of a chiropractor made during an appointment that occurred prior to a car accident that resulted in a personal injury claim, which shed light on the Plaintiff's condition before the accident when no other available evidence could.

The recorder found the evidence of both Danielle and Elaine to be unsatisfactory but he was particularly critical of Danielle's evidence, which was «unreliable» and «embellished».

Next, the court followed the approach in Perry that a committee must consider the nature of the evidence and, in doing so, can discount evidence inconsistent with objective or undisputed evidence, or which is manifestly unreliable.

A primary objective of the law on evidence is to screen out unreliable information.

This type of evidence is inherently unreliable and should never serve as the sole basis for prosecuting someone.

So, proof beyond a reasonable doubt of very old events in which physical evidence may no longer be available and some witness testimony may have become old or unreliable, may be a problem.

Although there is no way to guarantee that all evidence presented to triers of fact will be reliable, there are strategies at different levels to filter out unreliable evidence and promote the use of reliable evidence, the Institute's report notes.

Due to evidence presented by the defence refuting an unreliable methodology of establishing impairment by a drug prior to trial, the Crown chose to withdraw the charges rather than proceed.

After Mr. Navarrete's cross examination of the complainant, the court concluded that the complainant's evidence was simply unreliable given her consumption of alcohol.

«Michael Politte's wrongful conviction is a disturbing example of the state taking a young man's life away because of tunnel vision and unreliable evidence,» said Emison.

The Samaroos were acquitted of all charges in a 2010 criminal trial where the trial judge found the Crown's case «weak» and supported by «unreliable» and «highly uncertain» evidence which contained «significant flaws» and «discrepancies».

The evidence provided by the police officer with respect to the timeline of events was unreliable.

Explicitly citing the Innocence Network Brief, the Court held that Oregon's previous standard for the admissibility of eyewitness identifications (i.e. the Classen test) was «insufficient to ensure that unreliable evidence will be excluded» (24).

«The evidence before me indicates that with respect to the ASDs used in your case, the ASD Calibrator changed the service expiry date to match the calibration expiry date for three consecutive months... [B] ecause of this I can not be satisfied that the ASDs were serviced at the appropriate times, making the ASD results unreliable.

[41] For all of these reasons, I found Dr. Schweigel's evidence to be unreliable.

The court hearing the case explained that normally issues of fact should be decided by a jury, but here the evidence creating the issue was unreliable.

The evidence of the calibration of the devices is unreliable.

When reviewing convictions, we focus on the forms of weak evidence which have been proven unreliable over the past few decades — such as mistaken eyewitness identifications, false confessions, and bad forensics.

Eyewitness testimony is one of the most common pieces of evidence presented in the court room, yet volumes of research from the last three decades shows that it is also one of the most unreliable.

[11] Unreliable evidence is of no assistance to the trier of fact and is therefore inadmissible under Rule 702.

Shaw and Porter's study also provides further evidence of the inaccuracy and malleability of human memory, evidence that is already compelling enough to have persuaded the state supreme courts of New Jersey and Massachusetts to mandate that judges instruct juries that eyewitness testimony is inherently unreliable.