Meet the editor

Ian Freckelton is an Australian Queen's Counsel (a senior trial barrister) and a judge of the Supreme Court of Nauru. He is a Professor of Law and Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Adjunct Professor of Forensic Medicine at Monash University, and Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He holds an Order of Australia (AO) for his contributions to law, medicine and technology and is the editor of the *Journal* 

*of Law and Medicine* and the founding editor of *Psychiatry, Psychology and Law*. He is an internationally acknowledged authority on expert evidence, forensic science and forensic medicine. He is the author of more than 700 articles and book chapters, and more than 50 books, including *Expert Evidence: Law, Practice Procedure & Advocacy*, *Expert Evidence and the Criminal Jury Trial*, and the seven-volume work, *Expert Evidence*.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Ian Freckelton*

and Isotope Analysis

in Forensic Genetics

*and Olga A. Kravtsova*

and Redress Miscarriages of Justice *by Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops*

Forensic Osteology and Identification

*by Anil Garg and Nisha Goyal*

Forensic Analysis and Interpretation of Tool Marks *by Sachil Kumar, Geetika Saxena and Archana Gautam*

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Preface XI**

Novel Scientific Evidence **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 33**

Forensic Science **53**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 75**

**Chapter 6 89**

Identification Evidence **103**

**Chapter 7 105**

Reliability and Reproducibility of DNA Profiling from Degraded Samples

Mitochondrial 16S rRNA Gene-Dependent Blood Typing as a Forensic Tool

Forensic Analysis in Wildlife Crime Cases: Microscopy, DNA Profiling

Guarding the Gait: Evaluating Forensic Gait Analysis Evidence

*by Hussein O.M. Al-Dahmoshi and Hayder J. Al-Nayili*

*by Vivek Sahajpal, Sudhanshu Mishra and Deepika Bhandari*

*by Elena V. Ioganson, Marat I. Timerzianov, Marina V. Perelman* 

Probabilistic Genotyping: A Possible New Legal Avenue to Prevent
