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 ===== Discussion ===== ===== Discussion =====
  
-Legal and regulatory defensibility concerns the ability to support an outcome, decision, interpretation, or system behaviour during authorised legal, regulatory, supervisory, administrative, or audit examination.+Legal and regulatory defensibility concerns the ability to support an outcome, decision, interpretation, or system behavior during authorized legal, regulatory, supervisory, administrative, or audit examination.
  
-In regulated data interpretation environments, defensibility depends on more than the existence of a result. The organisation needs sufficient evidence to explain:+In regulated data interpretation environments, defensibility depends on more than the existence of a result. The organization needs sufficient evidence to explain:
  
   * What information entered the system   * What information entered the system
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   * How the system produced the result   * How the system produced the result
   * Which authority governed the interpretation or assessment   * Which authority governed the interpretation or assessment
-  * How the organisation preserved the evidence and processing history+  * How the organization preserved the evidence and processing history
  
 Legal and regulatory defensibility depends on architectural qualities such as: Legal and regulatory defensibility depends on architectural qualities such as:
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   * Explicit interpretive authority   * Explicit interpretive authority
  
-The architecture supports defensibility by preserving the evidence, context, reasoning, and governance relationships necessary for authorised review. It does not determine whether a court, regulator, supervisory authority, or other decision-maker accepts a particular result.+The architecture supports defensibility by preserving the evidence, context, reasoning, and governance relationships necessary for authorized review. It does not determine whether a court, regulator, supervisory authority, or other decision-maker accepts a particular result.
  
 ===== Definition ===== ===== Definition =====
  
-//quality of a system, process, interpretation, or result that permits its evidence, reasoning, authority, and outcome to withstand authorised legal, regulatory, supervisory, or administrative examination//+//quality of a system, process, interpretation, or result that permits its evidence, reasoning, authority, and outcome to withstand authorized legal, regulatory, supervisory, or administrative examination//
  
 ===== Source ===== ===== Source =====
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 ===== Note ===== ===== Note =====
  
-Legal and regulatory defensibility does not mean legal validity, regulatory approval, or guaranteed acceptance by an authorised decision-maker.+Legal and regulatory defensibility does not mean legal validity, regulatory approval, or guaranteed acceptance by an authorized decision-maker.
  
 The architecture provides evidence and explanatory support for examination. Appropriate legal, regulatory, supervisory, judicial, or administrative authorities determine the legal or regulatory effect of the result. The architecture provides evidence and explanatory support for examination. Appropriate legal, regulatory, supervisory, judicial, or administrative authorities determine the legal or regulatory effect of the result.
  
-Legal and regulatory defensibility differs from auditability. Auditability concerns the ability to inspect and reconstruct activity. Defensibility concerns whether the resulting evidence, reasoning, authority, and outcome provide a supportable basis during authorised examination or challenge.+Legal and regulatory defensibility differs from auditability. Auditability concerns the ability to inspect and reconstruct activity. Defensibility concerns whether the resulting evidence, reasoning, authority, and outcome provide a supportable basis during authorized examination or challenge.
  
 ===== Example ===== ===== Example =====
  
-An interpretation is legally and regulatorily defensible when an authorised reviewer can identify the source evidence, applicable definitions, rule versions, parameters, processing history, interpretive authority, and rationale supporting the result.+An interpretation is legally and regulatorily defensible when an authorized reviewer can identify the source evidence, applicable definitions, rule versions, parameters, processing history, interpretive authority, and rationale supporting the result.
  
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