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CATEGORIES:Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
SUMMARY:Recent Pan-European advances in harmonising evalua
tive reporting in forensic science: scope\, princi
ples and pending challenges - Alex Biedermann (Uni
versité de Lausanne)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160901T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160901T140000
UID:TALK67154AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/67154
DESCRIPTION:Co-authors: Christophe Champod (University o
f Lausanne)\, Sheila Willis (Forensic Science Ire
land)
Since decades\, the question
of how to assess and report the value of forensic
results preoccupies academics and practitioners
in both forensic science and the law across Europ
e and beyond. In essence\, this topic gravitates a
round the issue of what constitutes a logical fra
mework of reasoning\, and how it can be operation
alized in the applied context of legal trials. Oft
en\, statistics and probabilistic reasoning are p
romoted as \\emph{the} framework\, yet the overar
ching topic is larger and is concerned with the re
asonable reasoning in the face of uncertainty. Un
fortunately\, restricted views over the former hav
e limited viable contributions by the latter. To
help overcome these barriers\, forensic science a
nd legal practitioners across Europe have partnere
d -- over the past few years -- in the developmen
t of mutual understanding on general principles o
f forensic interpretation in terms of a guideline\
, delivered as the result of a project in the ENF
SI (European Network of Forensic Science Institut
es) Monopoly Programme scheme `Strengthening the E
valuation of Forensic Results across Europe'\;
(financially supported by the European Commission
). Built upon elements of previously published st
andards (e.g.\, by the Association of Forensic Sc
ience Providers)\, the \\emph{ENFSI Guideline For
Evaluative Reporting In Forensic Science} also in
cludes an assessment template for forensic expert
reports and a roadmap for implementation. This ma
kes it one of the most cross-disciplinary\, insti
tutionally supported acknowledgments of current u
nderstandings of logical inference in the courtroo
m\, and scholarly research in this area. This tal
k will focus on presenting the scope and major pri
nciples of the ENFSI Guideline\, and discuss chal
lenges associated with its wider and more systema
tic implementation. It will be argued that the gui
deline'\;s matured principles make it an inevi
table component of future works that seek to promo
te and facilitate the smoother operating of logic
al judicial proces
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