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# 6.3 The problem with Bayes’ Rule

The big problem with Bayes’ Rule is that though experts may be comfortable with expressing probabilities as numbers and working with likelihood ratios, judges and juries find it terribly difficult (as you may have found yourself!). The courts have struggled with the problem in different ways, but none are very satisfactory.

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- 1 R v Denis Adams (No 1) [1996] 2 Cr. App. R. 467.
- 2 R v T [2011] 1 Cr. App. R. 9 (CA).

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