In the UK some high profile cases indicated a lack of understanding of essential statistics on the part of many in the legal fraternity. Judges in summation oft

In the UK some high profile cases indicated a lack of understanding of essential statistics on the part of many in the legal fraternity. Judges in summation often unwittingly misrepresented probabilities, or allowed tenuous statistical assertions to be left unchallenged in their instructions. This was not unobserved by statisticians, and some effort had been made to redress this situation. For example, see http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~cgga/Guide-2-WEB.pdf http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~cgga/Guide-2-WEB.pdf