Week 10 of Legal Voca an Real World Cases

Negligence

Failure to take reasonable care, resulting in damage or harm to another person.Failure to take reasonable care, resulting in damage or harm to another person.

Fraud

Intentional deception to gain an unfair or unlawful benefit.

Perjury

Lying under oath during a legal proceeding.

Indictment

A formal charge issued by a grand jury accusing someone of a serious crime.

Damages

Monetary compensation awarded for loss or injury caused by another’s actions.

Emotional distress

Psychological suffering caused by another person’s negligent or intentional conduct.

Misrepresentation

A false or misleading statement that causes someone to act to their detriment.

Tampering

Interfering with something, often unlawfully or dishonestly, to change its outcome.

Pseudonym

A fake name used to protect someone’s identity, often in sensitive legal cases.

Retaliation

Harmful action taken in response to a perceived wrong or rejection.

Termination

The deliberate ending of a process or condition, such as a pregnancy.

Forensic

Related to scientific methods used in legal investigations and evidence.

Inconclusive

Not reaching a clear or definite result or answer.

Disclosure

The act of making information known or public.

Credibility

The quality of being believable or trustworthy.

Defamation

A false statement that harms someone’s reputation.

Chain of custody

The documented process that tracks the handling of evidence from collection to presentation in court.

Non-invasive

A procedure that does not require entering the body or breaking the skin.

Probability

A numerical measure of how likely an event is to happen, used in DNA results.

Sample collection

The process of obtaining biological material for testing.

Contamination

The unwanted introduction of substances that can affect the accuracy of a test result.

Correction notice

An official update or revision to a previous report or result.

Chain reaction

A chemical process, such as PCR, used in DNA analysis to amplify genetic material.

Rebuttable presumption

A legal assumption that is taken as true unless disproved with evidence.

Stigma

A mark of shame or social disapproval attached to a person or action.