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Burden of proof in legal argumentation

Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Artificial intelligence and law - ICAIL '95, 1995
We present a computational model of dialectical argumentation that could serve as a basis for studying elements of legal reasoning. Argumentation is well-suited to decisionmaking in the legal domain, where knowledge is incomplete, uncertain, and inconsistent, We model an argument both as information structure, i.e., argument units connecting claims ...
Arthur M. Farley, Kathleen Freeman
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COHERENCE, EVIDENCE, AND LEGAL PROOF

Legal Theory, 2013
The aim of this essay is to develop a coherence theory for the justification of evidentiary judgments in law. The main claim of the coherence theory proposed in this article is that a belief about the events being litigated is justified if and only if it is a belief that an epistemically responsible fact finder might hold by virtue of its coherence in ...
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Forensic science expressions and legal proof

Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2013
Evaluative forensic science opinions should be presented in a form that can be accommodated within that process of criminal proof demanded by judges and applied by juries. This is a non-mathematical inductive process that seeks ‘the inference to best explanation’ to a standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt. The question posed is not the mathematical
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LEGAL PROOF AND FACT FINDERS' BELIEFS

Legal Theory, 2006
In procedural-law scholarship as well as in the theoretical analysis of the notion of proof as a result of the joint assessment of all items of evidence introduced in a trial, reference is frequently made to notions such as the conviction, belief, or certainty of a judge or a jury member about what happened.
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Legal Evidence and Proof

2009
As a result of recent scandals concerning evidence and proof in the administration of criminal justice – ranging from innocent people on death row in the United States to misuse of statistics leading to wrongful convictions in The Netherlands and elsewhere – inquiries into the logic of evidence and proof have taken on a new urgency both in an academic ...
Kaptein, H., Prakken, H., Verheij, B.
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On legal proof

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1989
Nancy J. Dunham, Robert L. Birmingham
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Future-Proof Legal Services

This book provides a state-of-the art picture of the transformation of the global legal market. The traditional business model of law firms has been upended by new forms of organisation, often (but not exclusively) brought about by technological innovation and the use of technology for the execution of legal activities, which implies ...
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The Philosophy of Legal Proof

Criminal courts make decisions that can remove the liberty and even life of those accused. Civil trials can cause the bankruptcy of companies employing thousands of people, asylum seekers being deported, or children being placed into state care. Selecting the right standards when deciding legal cases is of utmost importance in giving those affected a ...
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Logic Programming and Burden of Proof in Legal Reasoning

New Generation Computing, 2012
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Scientific Proof versus Legal Proof: Ruminations about Mathematical and Statistical Reasoning in Legal Factfinding [PDF]

, 2010
Scientists try to find out the truth about our world. Judges in a court of law try to find out the truth about the target events in the indictment. What are the similarities, and what are the differences, in the procedures that govern the search for truth in these two systems?
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