BACKGROUND Occupational physicians are sometimes surprised at the decisions made by employment tribunals. AIM To assess employment tribunal judgements on disability discrimination in order to determine whether the evidence placed before the tribunal was appropriate and sufficient. METHOD Qualitative review of recorded tribunal judgements for an 18-month period between 1 January 2005 and 31 ...

In criminal proceedings, sometimes it is not easy to evaluate the sincerity of oral testimonies. DECOUR DEception in COURt corpus has been built with the aim of training models suitable to discriminate, from a stylometric point of view, between sincere and deceptive statements. DECOUR is a collection of hearings held in four Italian Courts, in which the speakers lie in front of the judge. These...

In July and August 2014, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) organised two public consultations concerning European pharmacovigilance. These two consultations reveal a number of EMA proposals that are counterproductive to the objective of improving transparency over pharmacovigilance data. The EMA's proposals offer pharmaceutical companies an opportunity to participate in public hearings held b...

The mobilization of interest groups is affected not only by social and economic “supply” factors but also by government-related “demand” factors as well. We add to a growing literature noting the impact on interest-group mobilization of government activity by examining how federal policy activity in an issue-area stimulates interest-group activity at the state level in the same issue-area. Empi...

Among the most visible and controversial functions of psychiatrists has been their service as expert witnesses for the courts. Psychiatric testimony is called upon in a vast array of cases. In civil law, these include disputes over the capacities of persons to contract, write a will, or manage their affairs; suits alleging emotional harms as the result of tortious acts; and claims of malpractic...