Small businesses are being urged to be wary of ‘cowboy’ rating surveyors attempting to profiteer from the recent rates revaluation.by Carl Calvert of Calvert Consulting
The obvious place for maps in law is to define boundaries of some sort, property boundaries being the most obvious. Another purpose is to map an alleged route a defendant took or could not have taken in a criminal case. Generally, the overriding purpose is to show, on a piece of paper or computer screen, a representation of the ground to a court.
A leading scientist, called in to help break a series of unsolved crimes, is to fire up his pioneering ‘bullet casing’ fingerprint invention before American forensic experts.
Dr John Bond, Scientific Support Manager at Northamptonshire Police and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leicester Forensic Research Centre, discovered a way of visualising corrosion patterns etched by human sweat into the surfaces of bomb and ammunition casings when handled.
Expert witnesses having nothing to fear from moves towards accreditation, according to the Government's new Forensic Science Regulator.
Doubts over the reliability of expert evidence at trial have led to a decision by the Criminal Cases Review Commission to ask the Court of Appeal to look again at the conviction of a man, known as E, on sex charges.
E, who has not been named for legal reasons, was convicted of six counts of rape, two of indecency and two of gross indecency in 2003. He was sentenced to six years imprisonment, appealed in 2004 but the appeal was dismissed and applied to the Commission in 2006.
