Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: In the decision to the British appeals case Re H (Minors), Judge Lord Nicholls, talking about criminal behavior, stated that “that the more serious the allegation the less likely it is that the event occurred”. There is actually quite a bit of discussion about the conclusions that should be drawn from this observation in the literature, but I have not found much discussion of the question whether the observation is right. I find this surprising, and in this essay I want to inspect this question.
Source: Synthese
Author: Andreas Kapsner
Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,990
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W4307203879