It’s perhaps fair to say that the Drug Driving legislation introduced in 2015 is the most successful piece of motoring law in the last 40 years. What started with less than 10% successful prosecutions, now results in at least 90% of cases ensuring a conviction. It is also fair to say that whilst the statutory…
Bericon is being increasingly asked to review the above information and offer an assessment of whether an individual’s suggested passive exposure to an Novel Psychoactive Substances may have led to them failing an MDT for a given substance or its metabolite. We are able to prepare reports which offers comment on the above scenario and,…
Fires are unpredictable things, and the recent fire at Grenfell Tower shows how even the experts can be caught out. How fires work Basically, fires burn upwards since the heat they generate causes the air above the fire to expand, lowering its density and therefore floating upwards like a helium balloon. Fresh air is then…
Driving under the influence of drugs, either illicit or prescription, has been an offence for many years. But before March 2015, the Crown had to establish that the individual was impaired to drive. Are there drug driving defences? Historically about 40% of proceedings in Magistrates Courts for drug driving were withdrawn or dismissed. The comparable…
It’s often said that the quality of any forensic work is only as good as the quality of what’s happened before an item gets to the laboratory. In the not-too-distant past, when items such as clothing or footwear were seized from an individual, the exhibit bags would remain sealed until the items arrived at the…
