Evidence
Recommendations related to evidence
5
Recommendations
100% accepted
Government Response
Accepted (5)
Recommendations in This Theme
recommendation across 1 inquiry
Across 1 inquiry
Tagged Recommendations
5 total
FP1
Accepted
Fingerprint Inquiry
Fingerprint evidence as opinion
Fingerprint evidence should be recognised as opinion evidence, not fact, and those involved in the criminal justice system need to assess it as such on its merits.
Government response: Accepted. No public evidence of delivery has been found.
Scottish Government
FP3
Accepted
Fingerprint Inquiry
Discontinue certainty claims
Examiners should discontinue reporting conclusions on identification or exclusion with a claim to 100% certainty or on any other basis suggesting that fingerprint evidence is infallible.
Government response: Accepted. No public evidence of delivery has been found.
SPA Forensic Services
FP5
Accepted
Fingerprint Inquiry
Basis of conclusions
Experts should list all variables considered and state whether the conclusion has been reached through training and personal experience or on any other basis such as statistical analysis.
Government response: Accepted. No public evidence of delivery has been found.
SPA Forensic Services
FP66
Accepted
Fingerprint Inquiry
Unable to exclude findings
Before a finding of 'unable to exclude' is led in evidence, careful consideration will require to be given to (a) the types of mark for which such a finding is …
Government response: Accepted. No public evidence of delivery has been found.
COPFS
FP9
Accepted
Fingerprint Inquiry
Features demonstrable to lay persons
Features on which examiners rely should be demonstrable to a lay person with normal eye sight as observable in the mark.
Government response: Accepted. No public evidence of delivery has been found.
SPA Forensic Services