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BSA 2023

Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023: the Indian evidence statute that replaced the Indian Evidence Act 1872 on 1 July 2024; retains the section...

Daubert Standard

The US federal evidentiary standard (Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 1993) requiring that expert testimony be based on scientifically valid methods with...

ENFSI FWG

ENFSI Fingerprint Working Group: the inter-laboratory coordination body within the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes that harmonises fingerprint examination methodology, runs...

Frye Standard

The US legal test for admissibility of scientific evidence, originating from Frye v. United States (1923), which required that a technique be...

FSR Codes of Practice

The Forensic Science Regulator's Codes of Practice and Conduct, made statutory by the Forensic Science Regulator Act 2021, setting mandatory quality standards...

Likelihood Ratio (LR)

The ratio of two conditional probabilities: the probability of the observed evidence given the prosecution's hypothesis (same source), divided by the probability...

OSAC Friction Ridge Subcommittee

The NIST-housed committee that produces formal consensus standards for friction ridge examination in the United States, operating within the Biology Scientific Area...

PCAST 2016

President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology 2016 report 'Forensic Science in Criminal Courts', which assessed foundational validity of forensic disciplines...

SWGFAST

Scientific Working Group for Friction Ridge Analysis, Study and Technology; the predecessor body to the OSAC Friction Ridge Subcommittee; produced documentation standards...

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• Standards, Accreditation and Admissibility in Fingerprint EvidenceInternational Association for Identification Latent Print Certification Board: the body that administers the IAI Latent Print Certification Programme, requirin...