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Department of Statistics

Interdisciplinary workshop on Statistics and the Law

The workshop on Personal Injury and Medico-legal Issues in Civil Litigation will be held in Edinburgh on 27th and 28th June 2024. This workshop will consider issues and questions which are faced by legal professionals regarding epidemiology and statistical evidence..

Topics will include:

  • approaches to evaluating risks of vaccinations, medical treatments and devices and estimating the long-term health outcomes after medical, industrial and traffic injuries.
  • legal and statistical interpretations of evidence will be compared. The relation between legal questions and statistical concepts, accessing and assessing data, and statistical evaluation of quality and relevance. Alternative methods of estimating treatment effects, quality and length of life will be compared.
  • effective approaches to presenting results to different audiences is an important aspect of this workshop. The Statistics and the Law Section of the Royal Statistical Society has contributed to primers for legal professionals. This will be an opportunity to evaluate these documents, and recommend modifications or extensions.

Details of the programme can be found hereLink opens in a new window. Please check back as the programme will continue to be updated until closer to the event.

For invited speakers (who are not required to pay a registration fee) : please complete this formLink opens in a new window.

For all other attendees: Please complete the form below. On completion this will take you to a payment screen for the registration fee of £100 which covers lunches, drinks during breaks and dinner on the evening of 27th June.

Dates: 27th and 28th June 2024

Times: 09:30 on 27th June to 16:30 on 28th June

Venues:

27th June: University of Edinburgh, Lecture Theatre A, 40 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LX

28th June: Faculty of Advocates Mackenzie Building, 172 Old Assembly Close, High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QX

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