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For Experts
- Have you been:
  - Asked to conduct investigations, analysis, assessment or examinations?
  - Asked to collect samples for legal testing?
  - Asked to write a legal report?
  - Asked to give expert evidence?
  Are you apprehensive about:
  - What this involves?
  - Your legal obligations
  - The difference between fact and opinion?
  - Court protocol?
  - How to correctly answer the questions in court?
- Workshops
  - - - Forensic Foundations provides one or two day workshops for professionals or organizations whose expertise may be called upon by the legal system.
        
        Since 2008 we have assisted hundreds of experts with 95% positive feedback.
        
        Workshops are tailored to the needs and experience of the participants – no two workshops are identical.
        
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    - - Some of the workshops we conduct are:
        
        Legal awareness training
        
        From Collection to Court
        
        Withstanding Legal Scrutiny
        
        Expert witness training
        
        Advanced Court Skills
        
        Discipline specific training
- Seminars
  - - - Seminars differ from workshops in that they are shorter in duration and are less interactive – although questions are encouraged.
        
        Seminars and speakers can be arranged for any group on topics including:
        
        The interface of science and law;
        
        Quality management;
        
        The Australian legal system; or
        
        Expert evidence.
        
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- One on one training
  - - - Forensic Foundations offers individual training for experts called to give evidence. This training will not cover case specific issues but will cover the general issues and concerns experience by those about to give evidence.
        
        Whilst there is a common law prohibition against coaching or training of witnesses, here is an exception (found in MOMODOU, Henry; LIMANI, Beher [2005] EWCA Crim 177 at 62)
        
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For Lawyers
- - Do you examine or cross-examine experts?
  - Are you across the subject matter?
  - Do you know what you need to ask?
  - Do you need an expert to review another expert's findings?
- Workshops
  - - - Forensic Foundations provides one or two day workshops for legal practitioners.
        
        Since 2008 we have assisted many lawyers with 95% positive feedback.
        
        Workshops are tailored to the needs and experience of the participants – no two workshops are identical.
    - - Some of the workshops we conduct are:
        
        DNA for Legal Practitioners
        
        Forensic Biology for Legal Practitioners
        
        Bayesian Reasoning and Statistics
        
        Quality Management and the Law
- Seminars
  - - - Seminars differ from workshops in that they are shorter in duration and are less interactive – although questions are encouraged.
        
        Seminars and speakers can be arranged for any group on topics including:
        
        Forensic science generally
        
        Sub disciplines of forensic science e.g. DNA, Fingerprints, Crime scene examination
        
        The interface of science and law
        
        Application of statistics to forensic science
        
        Quality management
        
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- Case Review / Consultancy
  - - - Forensic Foundations can provide advice or a consultancy service including case review with respect to DNA testing for both civil and criminal matters.
        
        We are also able to refer you to experts in other fields.
        
        Forensic Foundation is cognizant with and abides with the HARMONISED EXPERT WITNESS CODE OF CONDUCT including the General Duties to the Court
        
        An expert witness is not an advocate for a party and has a paramount duty, overriding any duty to the party to the proceedings or other person retaining the expert witness, to assist the Court impartially on matters relevant to the area of expertise of the witness.
        
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- Management of Expert Witness(es)
  - - - You use experts because of their expertise in a particular field. However, they may not be experts in being expert witnesses and all that entails.
        
        Whilst there is a common law prohibition against coaching or training of witnesses, there is an exception (found in MOMODOU, Henry; LIMANI, Beher [2005] EWCA Crim 177 at 62).
        
        Forensic Foundations offers individual training /support for experts called to wrote reports and/or give evidence. This training will not cover case specific issues but will cover the general issues and concerns experience by those about to give evidence.
        
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Proficiency Testing
- Current Proficiency Tests
  - - - ISO17043 accredited
        
        Forensic Foundations provides end-to-end forensic proficiency tests encompassing all parts of real casework, rather than the traditional analytical stage only.
        
        We are currently offering a range of 2020 tests from Biology to Chemical Criminalistics to Fingerprints to Document Examination.
        
        There are a number of other tests in the design stage so bookmark this page for future reference.
        
        If you have a particular proficiency test or inter-laboratory collaborative test requirement, we may be able to assist you.
        
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    - - 2020 Proficiency Tests
        
        2020 Inter-lab Collaborative Trials
        
        Suggestions for additional Proficiency Tests
- Training kits
  - - - When you purchase a ‘Training Kit’, you will receive the test samples, associated paperwork and the manufacturer’s information.
        
        This test has no external review and can be used for training purposes.
    - - 2019 Training Kits
        
        2019 Shop
        
        2020 Training kits
        
        2020 Shop
- Completed Proficiency Tests
  - - - Once a proficiency test has been completed and the final report has been distributed to the participants, the report will be uploaded.
        
        As the Forensic Foundations’ Proficiency Testing has only been recently developed, a sample report, for demonstration purposes has been uploaded
        here
        
        Sample Report
    - - 2018 Completed Proficiency Tests
        
        2019 Completed Proficiency Tests
Online Tutorials
- A tutorial is a method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of a learning process – it is more interactive and specific than a book or a lecture. tutes@forensicfoundations are online, informative and current
- Provision of Expert Evidence
  - - - tutes@forensicfoundations
        
        You may be exploring this series of tutes because you:
        
        have been asked to provide a legal opinion or write a legal report;
        
        you are thinking of entering this arena; or
        
        your routine work may, at some stage, become involved with some legal action.
        
        These tutes are designed so that you can move through them in a logical sequence at your own pace. Each tute comprises of a number of modules followed by a short quiz.
    - - Provision of Expert Evidence
        
        The Australian Legal system and an Introduction to Evidence
        
        Writing the report
        
        Giving evidence in Court
- Coming Soon
  - - - Coming soon. We are the process of producing:
        
        Statistics for Forensic Science
        
        Forensic DNA Profiling
    - - Statistics for Forensic Science
        
        Forensic DNA Profiling
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Forensic Foundations provide end-to-end proficiency testing to simulate real laboratory work

FDE
750
Fraud investigators have collected a number of documents from a number of locations.

Participants will be provided with a number of machine generated documents and asked to examine the documents for authenticity and also to determine if they have a common source.
Glass
750
A break in and robbery occurred in a private home. Access was gained by breaking a window.

Clothing from a number of suspects has been seized.

Participants will be provided with samples of the glass from the scene and the debris collected from suspects’ clothing
BPA
750
Fraud investigators have collected a number of documents from a number of locations.

Participants will be provided with a number of machine generated documents and asked to examine the documents for authenticity and also to determine if they have a common source.

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