by reporting watch team | Jan 24, 2024 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Lucy Taylor. Lucy is a pupil barrister at Coram Chambers. When it is disputed whether a person uses drugs, the family court can – and often does – order hair strand testing to determine the issue. This article draws upon the work of...
by Lucy R | Jun 20, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Four years ago we wrote about news reports of a police investigation into a drug testing lab that had carried out tests for the Family Court : Police investigating drug testing lab that carried out tests for the Family Court The issue was that some of the tests...
by reporting watch team | Nov 23, 2017 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch
On 21 November the Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal’s Service issued advice for those concerned about potentially unreliable forensic toxicology (drug) tests in some family cases. The advice also relates to criminal trials, but this post looks...
by reporting watch team | May 20, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
There have been news reports recently about failures at a forensic lab in Manchester, which was used for forensic testing in criminal cases. It was reported earlier this month that “Scores of convictions [are] in doubt amid forensic test manipulation...
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