5.10 Age Estimation in the Living, the Dead and Skeletal Remains

The age's forensic determination (the disputed-age cases: the marriage, the employment (the child-labour bar), the juvenile justice (the LAW5407 core), the migration): the living's methods: the dental (the eruption-and-mineralisation — the most reliable windows); the skeletal (the ossification centres — the X-ray's timetable: the hand-and-wrist's standard; the shoulder's-and- pelvis' faces); the sexual-and-physical development; the dead: the autopsy's ageing (the same markers + the degenerative); the skeletal remains: the bones' ageing (the teeth, the sutures, the pubic symphysis — the LAW5510 companion); the law's frame: the age's legal presumptions vs the medical estimate (the juvenile-justice rule: the doubt's benefit — the child's age resolved in the child's favour — the Children's Act's verified provisions' companion); the bone-test's Nepali jurisprudence (the courts' bone-age orders — the honest note: the age-determination cases' practice).