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Podcast: Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
Episode: UK Politics and Bad Science: Investigating the Graveyard Spiral of Forensic Science in England and Wales
Description: Is Britain still a world leader in forensic science or are we sleepwalking into a criminal justice crisis?
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Once considered the gold standard, the UK’s forensic science system is not working well for anyone – not for the police, not for the suppliers of services, not for the courts and, by extension, not for the public. Yet we all believe it to be a critical tool that we can rely upon to bring the guilty to justice and exonerate the innocent.
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Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC are joined by two of...