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...out Sinn Fein MPs and the Speaker – looks set to be 323. David Cameron, as the incumbent, would be given first chance to form a government but Labour is in a stronger position to secure the confidence of the house, whether it is the largest party or not. It could feasibly rely on the support (or abstention) of the SDLP, the Greens, Plaid Cymru, Independents and even the...

...out about The Open University's Law courses. [A photograph of a lie detector.] In a criminal trial, one thing that jurors often have to do is listen to competing accounts of events given by witnesses and try and work out which witness is telling the truth. These judgments are called credibility judgments. They often arise in trials for sexual offences, where the defendant...