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Events 6/12/06: "Resolving and Managing Disputes Effectively" (Edinburgh) RICS presentation by Sandra Cassels aimed at chartered surveyors examining different methods of dispute resolution. 14/12/06: "Paediatricians and Child Protection" (London) Medico-Legal Society. Talk by Prof. Sir Alan Craft reviewing recent high profile cases relating to child protection and how the Royal College of Paediatrics has reacted to them. Articles

"Killer Fathers"  Is it revenge? Is it spite? Is it madness? And why do the numbers of men murdering their children seem to be on the increase? A fascinating article in which forensic psychologists comment upon this topical and relatively recent phenomenon. (Used with kind permission, © Daily Telegraph, 2006)

In The News

10/11/06 (UK): Computer Expert’s Credentials Questioned  A computer analyst who has given expert evidence in highly sensitive court cases is being investigated over concerns about his credibility...

9/11/06 (UK): Expert Evidence of Pellet Strikes Minimises Sentences  Two men who carried out a string of drive-by-style shootings while "chasing cheap thrills” were ordered to pay significant fines and compensation at court.....

8/11/06 (UK): Government Spin? Surely Not!  The Parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee has said that scientific evidence was often misused or distorted to justify policy decisions which were really based on ideological or social grounds..........

3/11/06 (NL): Witness Tells of Destruction of Religious Sites:  An expert on cultural and historic monuments testified this week at the Hague trial of six former high-ranking Serbian officials about the devastation suffered by Islamic religious monuments in Kosovo during the conflict there........

3/11/06 (USA): Defence Expert Rejected As Internet Porn Conviction Upheld  Still on the subject of computer evidence, and with echoes of recent UK cases, a former teacher in the US has blamed computer viruses for altering his Web sites and uploading child porn images........

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