Recent court decisions in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom have demonstrated confusion and uncertainty by the triers of fact, whether they be judges or juries, about the evidence presented in cases of alleged abusive head trauma. It is not surprising that judges and juries have a difficult time understanding and evaluating the evidence presented by the opposing sides of these c...

Background The task of undertaking to draft jury instructions for a statutory cause of action or defense, and thus the need to articulate elements and consider their application, can highlight questions latent in the statutory text and interpretive case law. This point certainly applies to Arkansas Code Annotated Section 23-79-107, concerning misrepresentations, omissions, concealment of facts,...

Expert testimony is an integral part of legal decision making. It informs judges and juries about a wide variety of topics. The assumption underlying its admission is that the average factfinder may lack enough knowledge about scientific or technical topics to make fully informed decisions in the absence of such testimony. Judges and juries are expected to be able to better understand these top...

Summer 2021. #NhsDataGrab is trending on Twitter and over a million people opt out of NHS data-sharing in one month backlash against government plan: General Practice Data for Planning Research. The scheme proposes that GP anonymised health data everyone England will be made available to researchers companies healthcare research planning. plan now hold, much the dismay scientists who believe sa...