Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
This week the Kathleen Folbigg inquiry began again in Sydney. Folbigg was convicted in 2013 for the deaths of her four children.
It’s a case which has engaged the scientific community, which is interested in how science is treated in the judicial process. And particularly complex science.
But what about how scientists themselves perform in court? It’s often an alien world but ultimately the scientific process of inquiry and replicating data, should help courts create fairer justice.
In this podcast our Digital Editor Ian Mannix talks to Professor Adrian Lineacre, the former head of the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Scientists Association, and who now heads the South Australian Justice Chair of Forensic Science at Flinders University, about what happens when scientists are in the dock.
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