[SystemSafety] 1. View of Computer Reliability in the Law (English and US) and 2. Argumentation

[Grazebrook, Alvery]

Hi Peter,

The first link didn't come through correctly - looks like a double '-' in
the middle. The working link is
https://www.lawfareblog.com/dangers-posed-evidentiary-softwareand-what-do-about-it
Very interesting, and worrying.

Cheers,

Alvery



On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 09:18, Peter Bernard Ladkin <ladkin at causalis.com>
wrote:

> Susan Landau has published an article in the Lawfare blog about attitudes
> of English and US courts
> towards the evidence generated by, or about the behaviour of, computers in
> cases they consider.
>
> https://www.lawfareblog.com/dangers-posed-evidentiary-software
> —and-what-do-about-it
>
> She refers to Paul Marshall's masterful account to the University of Law
> of the PO Horizon affair
>
> https://www.postofficetrial.com/2021/06/marshall-spells-it-out-speech-to.html
>
> Susan also singles out Paul's observation that ".... writing on a bit of
> paper in evidence is only
> marks on a piece of paper until first, someone explains what it means and,
> second, if it is a
> statement of fact, someone proves the truth of that fact."  This applies
> strongly also to arguments
> presented in assurance cases for safety-critical systems.
>
> Rather than say more here, I refer to my blog post
>
> https://abnormaldistribution.org/index.php/2021/06/27/computer-reliability-in-legal-arguments-with-some-observations-about-arguments/
>
>
> PBL
>
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