2024/10/01 by Jason Chin, Stephanie Clayton, Stephen Cordner +11 · 1 voice
Medicine · Health Professions · #Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries #Burn Injury Management and Outcomes #Disaster Response and Management
paper · pdf · doi:10.31222/osf.io/atu56_v1
openalex publication_date 2024/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
This protocol aims to address two metaresearch questions: what do we know about the science underlying impactful legal decisions and how can we assess this evidence efficiently and accurately, such that it is usable for courts? To do so, this protocol describes our plan for a systematic review of the literature underlying whether there are reliable indicators of the manner of death in stab wound cases. Evidence of nature was recently found admissible at the High Court of Australia in Lang v The Queen. However, despite the High Court uncritically accepting this evidence, there has never been a systematic review that critically appraises the relevant literature. Beyond the review itself, we will fully document our process and all of the time-saving tools we rely on to provide knowledge about whether systematic reviews of this nature can be efficiently deployed in legal proceedings.