causation

• Folbigg Inquiry a watershed moment for medical evidence in Australian criminal law

  27th Apr 2023

  Alongside counterpart UK cases, the Inquiry into the conviction of Kathleen Folbigg for offences involving the deaths of her four children is a defining moment in the coming of age of genetics and genomic testing in the judicial system argues Dr Ken Maclean, a clinical geneticist and author of ‘Genomics and Causation’, published in the March–April 2023 edition of Precedent, the bi-monthly journal of the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA).

• Beware of failing to establish the inferential reasoning required for causation

  6th Sep 2018

  David Cormack discusses the decision and reasoning in Inghams Enterprises Pty Ltd v Kim Yen Tat [2018] QCA 182.