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In addition to our core scientific staff based in Glasgow, an extensive network of experts provide the expanding knowledge upon which The Institute is founded. Professor Allan Jamieson was instrumental in the challenges to the use of the Low Copy Number (LCN) technique in the Omagh Bomb trial [R v Hoey] and in the English Appeal Court case of Reed. The Appeal Court, whilst expressing some concern about his expertise, ultimately endorsed his view (and that of others) that the existence of random effects compromised the reliability of LCN profiles with very low amounts of DNA. He remains the only UK scientist who has consistently challenged the technique in Court and is uniquely qualified to do so. He is one of our three in-house DNA scientists performing casework. Professor Jamieson is the Co-editor in Chief of Wileys Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences - a five volume work. "This encyclopaedia is astounding, running to 3,100 pages with over 250 contributors, and leaves, appropriately, no stone unturned or lacking in forensic examination. ... This is a hugely valuable and worthwhile contribution to any civil or criminal practitioner’s library."*
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