UK forensics and criminal law are fascinating for students, the public, academics aswell as the practitioners working in those industries.
 
Forensics can be relied on as evidence in many different areas of law. However, it can be the swaying factor when it comes to criminal cases, where a jury or magistrates need to be sure that a person has committed an offence.
 
Evidence is reliable in all different manners, such as witness evidence, documentary evidence and identification procedures. However, forensic evidence holds an extra weight to it where the person providing the forensic evidence can usually give an opinion. That opinion can only be on the piece of evidence itself that they hav examined.
 
The fact finders in legal cases are not the investigators, or the prosecution authorities. The fact finders are the people tasked with weighing up the evidence of whether what they have heard about that evidence proves the prosecution's case or not.