The Line Between Analysis and Advocacy: What the High Court’s Recent Family Law Ruling Means for Solicitors.
Expert evidence is an indispensable asset in modern Irish family law. Judges are routinely asked to make deeply challenging decisions regarding child welfare, access, and parental capacity, relying heavily on specialized behavioural and psychological data that sits outside the court’s own training. However, a fine legal line exists between an expert assisting the court and an expert attempting to substitute the judge’s own function.
How Criminals think, or is it?
We have all at some time or another, watched the news or heard of some crime or other, thinking, why would anyone do that? The usual suspects arise: poverty, family history, bad company, or anger at not having what other peers have, etc., but it’s not that simple, and an average Joe soap will find this hard to contend with, but it is a criminal’s mind, literally, and it’s different to most people’s way of thinking.
MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND WRONGFUL CONVICTION INVESTIGATIONS
A miscarriage of justice happens when an innocent person is tried by a court of law and found guilty of an offence for which they did not commit, in essence it is the failure of the judicial system to administer justice accordingly. My opinion on MOJ is seen below, its a person definition and not open to scholarly interpretation.
Miscarriage of Justice (MOJ)
Wholly innocent person is tried by the courts and found guilty of an offense they did not commit
Wrongful Conviction
This is where the accused is arrested, questioned or charged without lawful procedures being followed, or is questioned illegally, or evidence is manufactured or tampered with resulting in a guilty verdict. Seen as an issue in the process of justice. The person many be innocent or not.
Sally Clark: when expert evidence causes more harm than good.
The Sally Clark case stands as one of the most sobering examples of how expert evidence, when misunderstood, misapplied, or unchecked, can destroy lives. Although the case unfolded within the criminal justice system, its implications extend far beyond the courtroom. For naturopaths, integrative practitioners, and all professionals working with vulnerable individuals, the Clark miscarriage of justice is a powerful reminder of …
An oldie to be sure, but one of my many TV documentary interviews given, on forensic psychology and criminology.
I have done several but this one was my opinion on the The Field: Crá sa Chré, tá me ag caint as bearla anseo, but non the less it was a great doscseries and im still looking for the others i did.