Abstract
There are few things as likely to bring the criminal justice system into disrepute as the discovery that a forensic practitioner has been incompetent in bringing their findings to court. Recent questions over the objectivity of fingerprint evidence, the use and abuse of stored DNA data and their statistical interpretation, and the validity of psychological profiling have led to questions in public about the reliability offorensic evidence and the integrity and competence of those who deliver it. This is most serious, particularly at a time when scientific evidence, properly used, has an immense potential to support the fair and effective administration of justice.
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