Evidence
Recommendations related to evidence
Tag overview
recommendation across 1 inquiry
Across 1 inquiry
Tagged Recommendations
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.