InBrief

The Australian Academy of Law and the Australian Academy of Science come together to present discussions around:

• Scientific certainty compared with legal certainty, and scientific decision-making compared with decision-making by courts
• The difference between the scientific assessment of evidence and the assessment of evidence by the courts
• The different notions of what is evidence and the different timeframes for reaching a decision
• Cause and effect in science and law
• Unconscious predispositions (biases) of judges and witnesses
• The presentation and treatment of expert scientific evidence in the courts
• Uncertainty as part of certainty For more information please click here.