Quality control checks urged to reduce flawed court cases

Some US cities are starting to import approaches taken from medicine and air transport in order to focus better on mistakes in the criminal justice system.

US cities are starting to import approaches taken from medicine and air transport to focus on the criminal justice system. Hans Jeitner

At a meeting at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, it emerged, according to Associated Press, that: ‘Some prosecutors and defense lawyers have adopted such strategies as checklists from other fields. And a few cities are testing out problem-solving reviews of cases gone wrong.’

Planes and hospitals

The legal innovations are drawing upon the way hospitals deal with cases of unexpected death, perhaps due to error, of a patient. In the airline industry, there is also a systematic approach to risks which enables pilots to feed in concerns they might have on safety issues. Source: News Channel 10

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