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including your staff in the comments of His Lordship Justice Enriques when he praised the professionalism displayed by all concerned in bringing those responsible to justice." Steve Finnigan, Chief Constable Lancashire Constabulary. Criminal Tribunal Challenge – Devise and deliver an application capable of organising and displaying geographical and time-based evidential data to a court as part of an international criminal tribunal. With over 400,000 items of evidential data to deal with, our existing tools and methods were inefficient. Solution deployed - Create and maintain a remotely deployed EPE system With our IT partners, Shaping Cloud, a bespoke application was developed that allowed prosecutors to examine and compare the evidence to be displayed to the courtroom during the trial, with the ability to record and annotate the evidential material as it was used. Information was presented as evidence discovery timelines, maps and walkthroughs showing the narrative of events. The application had to support live evidence enquiry requests on-the-fly and once displayed in court, all source documents were referenced and audited into court proceedings. Technologies This was achieved using technologies including Esri ArcGis WPF SDK, .net 4, Telerik WPF data controls and MS SQL Server.
About Ray Evans... Managing Director, Raymond Evans MAA, RMIP is acknowledged as one of the United Kingdom's leading practitioners in the field of Facial Photo Comparison or “Facial Mapping”. Ray has been successfully involved in high profile cases in the UK, Europe and the USA and has produced many hundreds of reports and statements. He is regularly called to give evidence in court as an expert witness in the field of Facial Identification. Originally trained as a Medical Illustrator, Ray worked in the Middle East for a number of years and then at the University of Manchester for over 17 years. Ray moved away from the University to concentrate full time on developing SRi Forensics, the company he founded in 2004. He maintains his academic ties with the University as an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Psychology and as a visiting lecturer. Ray is currently also a visiting lecturer at Cranfield University and the University of Dundee. He regularly offers training in his specialist field and is actively championing standards in the field of Facial Identification through the Forensic Image Analysis Group (FIAG). Ray is active in a number of research areas, producing peer reviewed literature on facial comparison. His latest publication, a chapter entitled ‘Forensic Facial Comparison: Issues and Misconceptions’ is available to read in a new book, ’Advances in Forensic Human Identification’. A British Association for Human Identification (BAHID) collaboration, the book was published by CRC Press in January 2014 and is available through CRC Press website and Amazon. ■
Tel/Fax: 0161 374 3306 EVIDENTIAL PRESENTATIONS IMAGERY ANALYSIS FACIAL COMPARISON & IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT COURT INSTALLATIONS COMPLEX EVIDENCE SIMPLIFIED INJURY DEPICTION & SANITISATION EXPERT KNOWLEDGE SRi Forensics is an essential resource when investigating and preparing your legal case. Our consultants have vast experience of the judicial process both in the UK and Abroad. Acting as we do for both sides of the Justice System, SRi Forensics are highly regarded as an independant e-forensics company. We add great value to complex cases by producing effective court presentation material in the form of electronic presentation of evidence (EPE.)
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EXPERT WITNESS JOURNAL 25
SPRING 2014