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11 Med. Sci. & L. 1 (1971)

handle is hein.journals/mdsclw11 and id is 1 raw text is: MEDICINE SCIENCE and the LAW Vol. II January 1971 No. i EDITORIAL THE main object for the foundation of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences was cross-fertilisation of Medicine. Science and Law. This has been achieved with some success in respect of Medicine and Law but has been disappointing with Science. Much thought has been given to why this is so and there are probably several reasons which should be considered. The first is that members of the Science Section have been, in the main, drawn from Forensic Scientists who in their turn are members of the Home Office Forensic Science Laboratories, whilst those associated with Law and Medicine do not belong to any organised service and, therefore, have a somewhat greater breadth of approach. It is a matter for comment as to which is the best way to overcome this problem of lack of communication, for the future approach to the administration of justice will rest upon the decision made. Clearly there are two courses open in the future-or possibly more. Either there must be recruited and available more independent scientific experts from such bodies as learned societies or universities, or there must be closer association between members of the forensic science laboratories and doctors and lawyers. The former can only be brought about by establishing a panel of experts outside the laboratories, the latter by a similar conception to that on the Continent-institutes which afford close geo- graphical association between Medicine, Science and Law, and obviously in view of the various specialised disciplines involved, in close association with universities and industry. This is no new idea because it was put forward in 1936 by Dr. W. G. Barnard in a paper read before the Medico-Legal Society and published in the Medico-Legal and Criminological Review in 1937. Even that was not an Original conception, for he drew attention to the fact that the Medico-Legal Society, from its earliest days, had emphasised the need for such an Institute. This, in fact, was incorporated in the minutes of the Medico-Legal Society in an appendix to its Transactions for the Session 1923-24,1 following a discussion opened by the 1 Medico-Legal and Criminological Review, Vol. V, Pt. I: Transactions of the Medico-Legal Society, Vols. XVIII-XIx. 1 M.S.L.-1

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