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Reconciling the Dual-Faceted Mandates of Quasi-Judicial Human Rights Bodies: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s Prima Facie Approach to Evidence
Matthew Gillett and others
Human Rights Law Review, Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2024, ngad045, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngad045
Published: 24 January 2024
... developed and become entrenched since its establishment in 1991. This sequenced approach requires the claimant to demonstrate their case on a prima facie basis, before moving the onus to the Government to respond. The Government can meet this burden of proof by producing detailed and substantiated...
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Substantive and Procedural Criminal Law Protection of Human Rights in the Law of the European Convention on Human Rights
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Krešimir Kamber
Human Rights Law Review, Volume 20, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 75–100, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngaa005
Published: 16 April 2020
... and procedural—of the same right and that the procedural aspect should be given primacy both in terms of the order of examination and inferences to be drawn on the question of observance of human rights by states. human rights criminal law procedural obligations standard of proof burden of proof Article 3...
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Improving the Integration of Restoration and Conservation in Marine and Coastal Ecosystems: Lessons from the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Richard L Wallace and others
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BioScience, Volume 69, Issue 11, November 2019, Pages 920–927, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz103
Published: 18 September 2019
... and coastal resources. We believe that we must, instead, advance a proactive conservation ethic based on the precautionary principle and an appropriately placed burden of proof—strategies that will help reduce our reliance on costly restoration and protect marine and coastal ecosystems. Conservation...
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Case comment: differing interpretations of vaccine risk between courts and experts in Ministry of Health and Welfare (Taiwan) v. Chen
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Jen-Ji Ho
Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 18, Issue 2-3, June-September 2019, Pages 213–221, https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgz013
Published: 09 September 2019
... of the doubt burden of proof expert opinion law of evidence rule of law vaccine ADEM is a rare disease with a relatively low incidence. The estimated annual incidence of ADEM was 0.4 per 100 000 in California ( Leake et al., 2004 ) and Japan ( Yamaguchi et al., 2016 ) and 0.2 per 100 000...
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Procedural implications of market definition in platform cases
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Francesco Ducci
Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Volume 7, Issue 3, October 2019, Pages 419–446, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaenfo/jnz017
Published: 25 June 2019
... aggregation across sides, as well as contrasting positions regarding the allocation of burdens of proof in platform cases, tend to assume as determinative for their conclusions the way in which the relevant antitrust market is defined—whether broadly or narrowly. The article, instead, suggests...
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Belief functions and burdens of proof
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Dale A Nance
Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2019, Pages 53–76, https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgy020
Published: 28 December 2018
..., whether the ‘weight’ of the evidence (in Keynes’s sense of that term) has been practically optimized as a condition on submitting the matter to the fact-finder for decision, a determination that pertains to both criminal and civil cases. The latter view is defended. burden of proof burden of persuasion...
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Presumptions in EU competition law
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Cyril Ritter
Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Volume 6, Issue 2, August 2018, Pages 189–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaenfo/jny008
Published: 15 May 2018
... principles of EU law; (iii) explain the rationales for presumptions in EU competition law; and (iv) draw conclusions for optimal enforcement. competition competition law antitrust antitrust law presumptions error costs burden of proof evidence L40 K21 The term ‘presumption’ usually triggers...
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Kidney Sales and Market Regulation: A Reply to Semrau
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Julian J Koplin
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 42, Issue 6, December 2017, Pages 653–669, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhx023
Published: 15 November 2017
.... This commentary challenges both of Semrau’s claims. I argue that there is no reason to believe that kidney sellers benefit from the current black market trade in organs, and highlight a number of potential issues regarding the effectiveness and feasibility of Semrau’s proposed market regulations. burden of proof...
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A probabilistic framework for modelling false Title IX ‘convictions’ under the preponderance of the evidence standard
John Villasenor
Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 15, Issue 4, December 2016, Pages 223–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgw006
Published: 14 October 2016
... at American colleges and universities, allegations of wrongdoing are adjudicated according to a much lower ‘preponderance of the evidence’ standard. Victims’ rights advocates correctly argue that a lower burden of proof makes it easier to ensure that the guilty are punished. But there is also a mathematically...
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The role of presumptions of market dominance in civil litigation in China
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Félix E Mezzanotte and Liyang Hou
Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Volume 3, Issue suppl_1, October 2015, Pages i108–i131, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaenfo/jnv008
Published: 28 May 2015
... systematically failed to satisfy the requirements of the presumption due to problems of market definition and measurement of market shares. In terms of effects, the possibility that the presumptions connote a shift in the burden of proof from the plaintiff to the defendant remains unclear, and further guidance...
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Accuracy, optimality and the preponderance standard
Edward K. Cheng and Michael S. Pardo
Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2015, Pages 193–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgv001
Published: 27 February 2015
... the legitimate grounds for justifying legal rules. Kaplow’s discussion relies on his work with Steven Shavell as the general philosophical grounding for his burden-of-proof analysis. 17 Their book argued forcefully in favour of the primacy of welfare over ‘fairness’ (broadly defined to include...
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Innocence and burdens of proof in English criminal law
Federico Picinali
Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 13, Issue 3-4, September–December 2014, Pages 243–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgu007
Published: 13 June 2014
... criminal law. presumption of innocence burden of proof criminal law ECHR During the last decade the presumption of innocence has been at the centre of a lively scholarly debate in England. The Human Rights Act 1998 transposed into English law art. 6(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR...
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Representing the use of rule-based presumptions in legal decision documents
Vern R. Walker
Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 13, Issue 3-4, September–December 2014, Pages 259–275, https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgu008
Published: 26 May 2014
... difficulties in determining the burdens of production and persuasion, the meaning of legal terms in propositions to be proved and the inferences to be drawn from them. Presumptions factfinding legal decision documents vaccine compensation evidence law burden of proof burden of production burden...
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A process approach to inferences of causation: empirical research from vaccine cases in the USA
Vern R. Walker and others
Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 12, Issue 3-4, September-December 2013, Pages 189–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgt007
Published: 22 May 2013
... are sometimes made through a structured process in which multiple participants play various roles, and make decisions concerning various logical components of the overall inference (such as legal rules, policy objectives, presumptions, evidence, burdens of proof and findings of fact). This article illustrates...
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Is the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law on Anti-Roma Violence ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt’?
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Mathias Möschel
Human Rights Law Review, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 479–507, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngs018
Published: 04 October 2012
... cases. racial discrimination Roma burden of proof Article 14 European Convention on Human Rights * Post-doctoral researcher at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre ( [email protected] ). © The Author [2012]. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email...
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Burdens and standards of proof for inference to the best explanation: three case studies
Floris Bex and Douglas Walton
Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, June-September 2012, Pages 113–133, https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgs003
Published: 29 May 2012
... and Rhetoric,
University of Windsor, Canada
[Received on 3 June 2011; revised on 8 September 2011; accepted on 19 March 2012]
In this article, we provide a formal logical model of evidential reasoning with proof standards and
burdens of proof, which enables us...
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The burden of proof in co-management and results-based management: the elephant on the deck!
Mike Fitzpatrick and others
ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 68, Issue 8, September 2011, Pages 1656–1662, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsr098
Published: 25 July 2011
.... For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 2011 Abstract Fitzpatrick, M., Graham, N., Rihan, D. J., and Reid, D. G. 2011. The burden of proof in co-management and results-based management: the elephant on the deck! – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 1656–1662. Results-based management...
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Estimation of Quantities of Drugs Handled and the Burden of Proof
C. G. G. Aitken and others
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, Volume 160, Issue 2, March 1997, Pages 333–350, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-985X.00066
Published: 09 October 2008
... be determined partly on the total quantity of drugs handled. The determination of this quantity is a controversial estimation problem. Moreover, there is confusion concerning the relationship of this problem and the burden of proof. Various aspects of this problem are discussed in the context of three cases...
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Comment on the meaning of ‘proof beyond a reasonable doubt’
Jack B. Weinstein and Ian Dewsbury
Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 167–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgl016
Published: 15 January 2007
... probably be opposed by prosecutors and defense counsel. Prosecutors would object on the grounds that this quantification requires too high a probability. Some defense counsel would object because ‘fuzziness’ in the burden of proof would allow jurors to take more account of the case-specific...
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Merging Precaution with Sound Science under the Endangered Species Act
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Daniel J. McGarvey
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BioScience, Volume 57, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 65–70, https://doi.org/10.1641/B570110
Published: 01 January 2007
... species receive the benefit of the doubt, by switching the null and alternative hypotheses. These points are illustrated by critiquing a recent review of ESA requirements for endangered fishes in Upper Klamath Lake (southern Oregon). hypothesis test equivalence test statistical power burden of proof...
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