In trials witnesses often slant their testimony in order to advance their own interests. To obtain truthful testimony, the law relies on cross-examination under threat of prosecution for perjury. We show that perjury law is an imperfect truth-revealing mechanism. More importantly, we develop a perfect truth-revealing mechanism. Under this mechanism the witness is sanctioned if a court eventuall...

Courts have established that when an eyewitness to an event under litigation, who has suffered loss of memory as the result of a physical blow, thereafter recovers his memory following yet another physical blow, the witness is competent to testify to the event.' Moreover, courts generally hold that an eyewitness's memory can be refreshed-in or out of court-by use of any device which will get th...

.......To what kinds of thing should the patent system apply is a question that has troubled the US courts since the middle of the 19th century. The grandiose dreams or delusions of Samuel Morse brought the question to the Supreme Court in 1850, when the validity of his patent on the telegraph was challenged. The Court upheld most, but not all, of Morse’s patent. Morse’s achievement, as the Sup...

The frequency and severity of medical liability litigation in the United Kingdom have increased since the middle of the twentieth century. Recent estimates of settling outstanding negligence claims hover around at least 10 percent of the National Health Service’s total annual budget. This paper argues that the frequency and severity of these claims have increased as patients have been increasin...

Although researchers have consistently demonstrated the importance of confidence in public institutions like the courts, relatively little attention has been paid to understanding what confidence itself really is. This article presents data from two samples of community members, thereby building on and extending a preliminary investigation that sought to understand constructs related to confide...

Department of Chemistry, Imperial College 2AZ, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Institute of Chemical Biology, Imperial Colle 2AZ, UK. E-mail: [email protected] National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial SW7 2AZ, UK Department of Life Sciences, Imperial Colle 2AZ, UK † Electronic supplementary information ( full experimental details and procedures, 1 1–6. See DOI: 10.1039/c4sc01600a Cite...

abstracttransferor effect of appeal from civil judgment move case in the opinion of court of appeal/investigation of this court does not merely from forms and procedure perspective but investigation comprise the whole of the case.at contemporary world the role of appeal courts fundamentally changed and the process of investigation in the appeal court violated principle of double degree of proce...

Recently, the New Jersey Supreme Court determined that jurors may not be able to effectively evaluate eyewitness evidence (New Jersey v. Henderson, 2011). Research generally supports this contention, finding that jurors do not take into account factors surrounding the commission of the crime and identification when determining the reliability of an identification (Devenport et al., 1997). Court...

[This article examines whether trust or fiduciary law provides potential ‘stolen wages’ plaintiffs with a strong basis for a claim over money in bank accounts that previous governments held on the plaintiffs’ behalf. It also considers the broader issue of whether governments owed a fiduciary duty flowing from their obligations under general ‘protective’ legislation to prevent such workers from ...