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Evidence, Law and Medicine

The link is to a summary from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine's levels of Evidence (from May 2001).

This looks at the question of how reliable evidence is. Much of the "evidence" in the courts is from the lowest level (5) of certainty viz:

"Expert opinion without explicit critical appraisal, or based upon physiology, bench research or "first principles"."

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