BACKGROUND Trauma is one of leading cause of suffering to mankind. No study has yet been done to see the incidence, pattern of injury, outcome and declaration according to Qisas and Diyat in the city of Abbottabad. The objectives of the study were to determine the frequency of age and sex with type of lesion and causative weapon after trauma in a medico-legal clinic and to find the impact on th...

It is an important task for a law professor to educate law students in the skill of legal reasoning. A legal expert system is a computer system,, which entails legal knowledge of lawyers as legal experts in its knowledge base. The legal knowledge involves not only written, explicit knowledge like conventions, statutes, cases, commentaries etc., but also implicit legal knowledge which a lawyer u...

Significant legal and policy change related to domestic abuse has been evident in Scotland over the last 40 years. Despite this, no occurred relation cases which women kill their abusers. This article maps significant changes have abuse, linking these development of Scottish women’s movement feminist activism. landscape is contrasted with inertia become apparent A detailed examination presented...

Argument extraction techniques can likely improve legal information retrieval. Any effort to achieve that goal should take into account key features of legal reasoning such as the importance of legal rules and concepts, support and attack relations among claims, and citation of authoritative sources. Annotation types reflecting these key features will help identify the roles of textual elements...

Background:Death due to acute poisoning is of medical, legal and social significance. This study was designed to investigate lethal poisonings among dead bodies referred to a regional office of Iranian Legal Medicine Organization (ILMO). Methods:This was a retrospective descriptive-analytical study on dead bodies referred to Fars province regional office of ILMO in Shiraz, Iran, during April 20...

Recent developments in the forensic sciences have confronted the field of legal reasoning with the new challenge of reasoning under uncertainty. Forensic results come with uncertainty and are described in terms of likelihood ratios and random match probabilities. The legal field is unfamiliar with numerical valuations of evidence, which has led to confusion and in some cases to serious miscarri...

Context he review summarized here provides a global overview of the uses and impacts of medico-legal evidence in cases of sexual assault of adolescents and adults. It examines the existing peer-reviewed scholarly and grey literature from industrialized and developing regions. Over 400 items on sexual assault, including books, journal articles, news articles, research reports, annual reports, di...

Dworkin 1977, 1985) offer insights valuable to AI, their jurisprudential analyses often raise more questions than they answer and their insights, couched in philosophical discourse, are difficult to harness computationally. Much of the knowledge used in legal reasoning is published, codified, and highly indexed. The legal system maintains extremely detailed records of its cases and commentary o...