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Finding a fair and impartial jury: Is there even such a thing? (opens the original)
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The juror who admits to being biased may be less concerning than the one convinced they are not, writes Rebecca Ward, MBA. Finding an impartial jury is difficult enough when nobody knows the defendant. Martin Shkreli made the task considerably harder. During jury selection for his 2017 fraud trial, prospective jurors reportedly described him as “greedy”, compared him to a snake, admitted that they “hated” him and, in one memorable exchange, raised his treatment of the Wu-Tang Clan as another rea
The law exists because humans cannot be trusted to call their conduct what it is (opens the original)
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A word can change liability, privilege, disclosure obligations, professional discipline, or criminal exposure, writes Rebecca Ward, MBA. There is a particular kind of answer that should make every lawyer pause. “Did your organisation conduct an investigation?” Each response appears to answer the question. In truth, each admits something adjacent to what happened while quietly changing the part that matters. The physical contact remains, but the hit becomes a tap. The insult remains, but calling
Statistical theatre: How numbers mislead in the courtroom (opens the original)
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A 2012 High Court case exposed a problem every advocate should recognise: the form in which a statistic is presented can alter its persuasive force, even when the underlying arithmetic remains unchanged. Numbers do not arrive in court naked. They arrive framed, writes Rebecca Ward, MBA. The prosecutor leans forward. The expert begins carefully: allele frequencies, population substructure, laboratory limitations and the ever-present possibility of contamination or transfer. But the courtroom does
The 10th Man: Institutionalised dissent and the ethics of uncomfortable truths (opens the original)
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The 10th Man principle offers a simple corrective: truth does not arise from consensus; it survives because someone tested it, writes Rebecca Ward, MBA. After the intelligence failures of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, a surprise assault on Israel by Egypt and Syria that shattered the country’s assumption of invulnerability, Israel’s military establishment introduced reforms to prevent future blind spots. The failure had not stemmed from a lack of information but from a lack of dissent. Intelligence o
The legal weight of a mental health diagnosis (opens the original)
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Mental illness should never be a courtroom gimmick. But too often, it becomes one. In both psychiatry and law, the line between explanation and excuse is razor-thin, writes Rebecca Ward, MBA. It only takes a moment to label someone. A glance at the chart. A casual phrase in a courtroom. “Schizophrenic.” “Borderline.” “Narcissist.” But that single word, sometimes right, often wrong, can follow someone for life, impacting not only their identity but how they’re treated by clinicians, employers, co
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