August '06
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Events
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04/09/06: Basic Law For Expert Witnesses (London) EWI. An invaluable course - whatever your level of experience.
06/09/06:Stakeholder Conference (Warwick) Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners. “Forensic Evidence: Guilty or Innocent?”, focussing on issues of professional standards and quality.
11/06/06: Advances in Forensic DNA Analysis (Middlesbrough) Forensic Science Society. Aimed at forensic DNA specialists, forensic biologists and those in related professions.

Papers/Articles....
“An Arbitrator’s Obligations Regarding Bias” :Peter Phillippo, Brewer Consulting.
An analysis of the decision in Norbook Laboratories Ltd -v- (1) A Tank (2) Moulson Champlant Limited, and the implications for arbitrators.

In The News....
Experts making the headlines at home and abroad
22/08/06 (UK): Footprint Expert Steps It Up. Pioneering research by an expert will help police build profiles of suspects by examining foot and shoe prints left at crime scenes.....

21/08/06 (Fra): French DPP - Diana death "not an accident". The inquest into Princess Diana's death has been sensationally reopened by a French judge following an instruction from the French DPP......

15/08/06 (UK): Police Decryption Powers Are Flawed. The Government faces mounting criticism over plans to give police powers to make suspects produce readable copies of encrypted computer evidence....

03/08/06 (UK): Film Forces CCTV Acquittal. Four police officers were acquitted over a death of a person in their custody after CCTV evidence confused experts when it also recorded a movie playing on their station’s television......

26/07/06 (Eire): Stroke Motorist Banned From Roads. A driver who said a stroke caused her to crash, has been put off the road indefinitely despite being acquitted by a Judge......

24/07/06 (US): UK Experts take note: As a decision is awaited in the GMC (Meadow) case, US courts have encountered a similar problem…..

23/07/06 (UK):Damilola Convictions - Defence Agreed Forensics. During the recent Damilola Taylor trial the defence conceded that a spot of blood linking a teenage defendant to the killing was not planted by forensic scientists......

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