On 14 November, commissioners from the recent Westminster Commission on Forensic Science, launched by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice, spoke in the House of Lords about their findings ahead of a new Lords inquiry.
Professor Angela Galop and Professor Carole McCartney told the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee that forensic science currently isn’t working for anyone – not the police, not the courts, not lawyers. Their recent report, Forensic Science in England and Wales: Pulling out of the Graveyard Spiral, and their expertise provided to the committee, will inform a new inquiry into forensic science provision.
Find out more via Radio 4’s Today in Parliament.
