Is there any case law that supports the argument that a risk assessment made by an expert is flawed?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Gracie, 2019 ONCA 658 (CanLII):
The appellant argues that the risk assessments made by the experts are undermined by concerns about the reliability of the actuarial tests they used. In his submission, the decision in Ewert v. Canada, 2018 SCC 30, [2018] 2 S.C.R. 165, made it clear that there are legitimate concerns about the validity of the psychological and actuarial tools used to do risk assessments when these tests are applied to Indigenous offenders.
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