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  • DNA 2019 and Beyond

    $77.00
    Substantive LawProfessional Skills

    DNA 2019 and Beyond

    Since 1989 DNA evidence has been relied upon in Australian courts to secure convictions.  In subsequent years there has been significant developments in the technology used to obtain DNA, from 9 to 21 loci and STRMix, and the application of DNA including the establishment of a national DNA database. Every step along the way has been the subject of legal challenge with a considerable body of case law being the result.

    The future for practitioners is likely to see just as much development with an increasing reliance in prosecutions upon familial searching, the profiling of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA and forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP). This seminar will discuss these changes and explore future directions.