No, as LARI is not a court or a court-like system, there is also no formal appeals procedure. Final reports of the Commission for Research Integrity (CRI) are based on how the CRI understands the facts of the case and entail the following elements: 1) a summary of the result of the investigation, 2) an assessment of the result of the investigation, including a clear statement whether research misconduct had occurred, 3) an evaluation of the severity of the research misconduct if it had occurred, 4) recommendations on corrective, restorative, and/or preventive measures for the parties involved, and 5) lessons learned from the investigation, especially regarding measures that could have prevented the research misconduct if it had occurred. In other words, the CRI develops an evidence-based opinion and derives tailored recommendations from its factual findings, yet it does not in a legal sense rule on an issue or enforce measures.
However, the CRI may re-investigate a case if substantial new evidence has become available since the completion of the original investigation.
