This article provides an explanation of the duties and responsibilities owed by forensic
practitioners (and other expert witnesses) when preparing for and presenting evidence in …

This article approaches expert opinion evidence from a scientific, specifically cognitive
science, perspective. Decades of scientific research on expertise presents a picture of …

Misplaced legal confidence in the ability of jurors to understand and evaluate expert opinion
evidence-inattention to validity and reliability to forensic science techniques, failure to …

Common law judges have traditionally been concerned about bias and the appearance of
bias. Bias is believed to threaten the administration of justice and the legitimacy of legal …

LA REVUE DU BARREAU CANADIEN fiabilit comme condition d'admissibilitd. Dans le
prdsent article, les auteurs a un examen critique de l'approche adoptde par la Cour d'appel …

Forensic science evidence plays a pivotal role in modern criminal proceedings. Yet such
evidence poses intense practical and theoretical challenges. It can be unreliable or …

The crucial question for many legal disputes is “what happened,”? and there is often no easy
answer. Fact-finding is an uncertain endeavor and risk of inaccuracy is inevitable. As such, I …

When determining probative value for the purposes of balancing the probative value of
evidence against the danger of unfair prejudice to the accused, the High Court has favoured …

The legal record does not establish exactly what happened in the moments before a bullet
from Gerald Stanley's gun killed Colten Boushie. I am haunted by the grammar of my first …

This paper examines the Canadian regime governing the participation of victims in
sentencing through the use of victim impact statements, with a focus on the regime following …