House of Lords Report on Forensic Science and the Criminal Justice System

The House of Lords Report published today contains the following quote from me that was part of The Alan Turing Institute submission:

I said a lot more in the Turing submission about the use of probability and statistics in evidence, including concerns about low template DNA evidence and the possibility of using Bayesian networks to properly assess the overall impact of multiple pieces of related evidence.

Two other Queen Mary colleagues (Amber Marks and Ian Walden) also contributed to the Turing submission. 

For full details see:

• House of Lords, The Science and Technology Select Committee "Forensic science and the criminal justice system: a blueprint for change" HL Paper 333, 1 May 2019, https://t.co/M6utVY8Z0b 
• The Alan Turing Institute "Response to the House of Lords inquiry: Forensic Science in Criminal Justice", 13 September 2018, https://t.co/OBNeceVqhu
• Fenton N.E, Neil M, Berger D, “Bayes and the Law”, Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, Volume 3, 2016 (June), pp 51-77 http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-statistics-041715-033428. (This is cited in both of the above reports. See also blog posting about this article).