Why he matters in this case
Prof. Green is one of several senior UK statisticians whose public commentary on the shift-rota chart reinforces Prof. Richard Gill’s de Berk-parallel argument. Green’s contribution adds UK-specific, English-criminal-law framing to what Gill has argued at the international level — and carries weight in part because Green is a past president of the Royal Statistical Society, whose post-Sally-Clark guidance on statistical evidence in criminal trials is the canonical English reference point.
Professional background
- Emeritus Professor of Statistics, University of Bristol.
- Past president of the Royal Statistical Society.
- Bayesian statistician and author on complex stochastic systems. His public commentary work spans multiple medical-criminal cases going back to the 2003 R v Clark cot-death case.