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SUMMARY:The nature of questions arising in court that can be addressed via
  probability and logic - Bernard Robertson (LexisNexis)
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DESCRIPTION:At the admissibility stage\, judges are faced with questions s
 uch as "can extrinsic evidence of the truth of a confession (or eye-witnes
 s identification) be taken into account when considering whether a confess
 ion (or identification) is "reliable"?&nbsp\;<br><span><br>The structure o
 f these problems will be addressed using Bayesian logic along with the mor
 e difficult question over which the High Court of Australia recently divid
 ed in <i>IMM v R</i> [2016] HCA 14 namely whether when evidence has to rea
 ch a threshold of "heightened probative value" to be admitted\, the judge 
 should consider the credibility and reliability of the witness and the evi
 dence or whether the judge should consider only the LR for the content of 
 the evidence as evidence of the final probandum\, assuming it to be true.<
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LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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