Science in the interests of justice

Sir Adrian Smith

President, the Royal Society

Adrian Smith became President of the Royal Society on 30 November 2020. He is also Institute Director and Chief Executive of The Alan Turing Institute.

He is a mathematician with expertise in Bayesian statistics. This branch of mathematics represents uncertainties in the form of probabilities, which are then modified through the mechanism of Bayes theorem as new information becomes available. Adrian's comprehensive publications on diverse areas of Bayesian statistics have had a major impact on statistical practice in a wide range of disciplines and application areas.

Between 2008-2012, he was Director General, Knowledge and Innovation in BIS (now BEIS) and has previously worked with the UK Higher Education Funding and Research Councils. Adrian is Chair of the Board of the Diamond Light Source and is also a board member of the UK Atomic Energy Authority. In 2017, he carried out a review of the maths curriculum for 16-18 year olds for the Treasury and Department for Education. In the 2011 New Year Honours list, he was awarded the title of Knight Bachelor.

Dr Marcia McNutt

President, the National Academy of Sciences, US

Marcia McNutt (BA in Physics, Colorado College; PhD in Earth sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography) is a geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she was editor-in-chief of Science journals.

Professor McNutt was director of the US Geological Survey from 2009 to 2013, during which time USGS responded to a number of major disasters, including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. For her work to help contain that spill, Professor McNutt was awarded the US Coast Guard’s Meritorious Service Medal. She is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Association of Geodesy.

Professor McNutt is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (UK), the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.

In 1998, Professor McNutt was awarded the AGU's Macelwane Medal for research accomplishments by a young scientist, and she received the Maurice Ewing Medal in 2007 for her contributions to deep-sea exploration.

Anthony Hughes, Lord Hughes of Ombersley

Former Judge of the Supreme Court, UK

After studying at Van Mildert College, Durham, Lord Hughes briefly lectured in law at Durham and Queen Mary College London before going to the Bar in Birmingham chambers in 1971.

He took silk in 1990, having been for a few years before that as a Recorder (part time judge). From 1997 until 2018 he was a full-time judge, successively in the Family Division, the Queen’s Bench Division, the Court of Appeal (where he was Vice President of the Criminal Division) and the Supreme Court.

Lord Hughes retired under the standard age rules in 2018. He is currently a Judicial Commissioner for the Investigatory Powers Commission and Chairman of the public inquiry into the apparent Novichok poisoning in the Salisbury area in 2018 that led to the death of Dawn Sturgess. He is also highly involved in the Royal Society’s Science and the law programme.

He currently lives in Worcestershire, where he is an active charity trustee. He attempts to remain approximately sane through efforts in the garden, bellringing, and veteran rowing. He is married to a former biochemist, and they have two grown-up children.

Judge David S Tatel

US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, US

David S Tatel was appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in October 1994. He previously served as Director of the National Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Director of the Office for Civil Rights of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter Administration.

In private practice, Judge Tatel founded and headed Hogan & Hartson's education practice until his appointment by President Clinton to the DC Circuit. Judge Tatel previously co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, and he is a member of the American Philosophical Society. Judge Tatel is also a member of the Committee on Science for Judges, a collaboration by CSTL and the Federal Judicial Center, working on the update and revision of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Fourth Edition.

Judge Kathleen O'Malley

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, US

Kathleen O'Malley is Of Counsel with Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP in the firm's Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology Litigation practice, advising on a broad range of subject matters, including all forms of IP litigation, engaging in alternative dispute resolution, and intellectual property policy work. Judge O'Malley was a federal judge for more than 27 years, including most recently serving on the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the only court that handles appeals of patent cases. She also previously served as first assistant and chief of staff to the Ohio Attorney General.

In addition to her patent expertise, Judge O'Malley has substantial experience with other IP issues - copyright, trademark, trade secret, and the intersection of IP and antitrust - and with other areas of federal law, including securities fraud, tax matters, multi-district litigation and white-collar criminal prosecutions.

Judge O'Malley has received numerous awards over her career, such as the Sedona Conference Lifetime Achievement Award and the Intellectual Property Owners Association Distinguished IP Professional Award. She was also inducted into the IAM IP Hall of Fame by Intellectual Asset Management and was named a lifetime honorary member of the Association of Corporate Patent Counsel.

Judge O'Malley regularly lectures on various IP topics, including the importance of IP to innovation and the importance of innovation to the economy, and has trained judges, lawyers and stakeholders on the US IP system in over a dozen countries around the world.

Anthony Hughes, Lord Hughes of Ombersley

Former Judge of the Supreme Court, UK

After studying at Van Mildert College, Durham, Lord Hughes briefly lectured in law at Durham and Queen Mary College London before going to the Bar in Birmingham chambers in 1971.

He took silk in 1990, having been for a few years before that as a Recorder (part time judge). From 1997 until 2018 he was a full-time judge, successively in the Family Division, the Queen’s Bench Division, the Court of Appeal (where he was Vice President of the Criminal Division) and the Supreme Court.

Lord Hughes retired under the standard age rules in 2018. He is currently a Judicial Commissioner for the Investigatory Powers Commission and Chairman of the public inquiry into the apparent Novichok poisoning in the Salisbury area in 2018 that led to the death of Dawn Sturgess. He is also highly involved in the Royal Society’s Science and the law programme.

He currently lives in Worcestershire, where he is an active charity trustee. He attempts to remain approximately sane through efforts in the garden, bellringing, and veteran rowing. He is married to a former biochemist, and they have two grown-up children.

Judge David S Tatel

US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, US

David S Tatel was appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in October 1994. He previously served as Director of the National Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Director of the Office for Civil Rights of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter Administration.

In private practice, Judge Tatel founded and headed Hogan & Hartson's education practice until his appointment by President Clinton to the DC Circuit. Judge Tatel previously co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, and he is a member of the American Philosophical Society. Judge Tatel is also a member of the Committee on Science for Judges, a collaboration by CSTL and the Federal Judicial Center, working on the update and revision of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Fourth Edition.

Professor Niamh NicDaeid FRSE

University of Dundee, UK

Professor Niamh Nic Daeid is a Chartered Chemist and authorised forensic scientist. She is a Professor of Forensic Science and Director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and holds fellowships of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Chartered Society of Forensic Science, the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland, the Royal Statistical Society and the UK Association of Fire Investigators. 

She has held leadership positions with the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) as a past chair of the fire and explosion investigation working group and as vice chair of the scientific advisory board of the International Criminal Court for six years. She is a forensic expert advisor to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and is also vice chair of the Dundee Drugs Commission investigating drug related deaths in Dundee. 

Professor Thomas D Albright

Vision Center Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, CA, US

Thomas D Albright is Professor and Conrad T Prebys Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He is an authority on the neural basis of visual perception, memory and visually guided behaviour.

An important goal of Professor Albright's work is the development of therapies for perceptual impairments resulting from disease, trauma, or developmental disorders of the brain. A second aim of his work is to use growing knowledge of brain, perception, and memory to inform societal decisions.

Professor Albright received a PhD in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Albright served on the NAS Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, on the National Commission on Forensic Science (an advisory body to the US Department of Justice), and on the human factors committee of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science. He has also served as co-chair of the NAS Committee on Scientific Approaches to Eyewitness Identification, which produced the 2014 report Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification.

Professor Niamh NicDaeid FRSE

University of Dundee, UK

Professor Niamh Nic Daeid is a Chartered Chemist and authorised forensic scientist. She is a Professor of Forensic Science and Director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and holds fellowships of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Chartered Society of Forensic Science, the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland, the Royal Statistical Society and the UK Association of Fire Investigators. 

She has held leadership positions with the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) as a past chair of the fire and explosion investigation working group and as vice chair of the scientific advisory board of the International Criminal Court for six years. She is a forensic expert advisor to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and is also vice chair of the Dundee Drugs Commission investigating drug related deaths in Dundee. 

Professor Bruce Budowle

University of North Texas, US

Dr Bruce Budowle received a PhD in Genetics in 1979 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. From 1979-1982, Dr Budowle was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Working under a National Cancer Institute fellowship, he carried out research predominately on genetic risk factors for diseases such as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, melanoma and acute lymphocytic leukaemia.

From 1983-2009, Dr Budowle worked at the FBI’s Laboratory Division to carry out research, development and validation of methods for forensic biological analyses. He has published more than 700 articles, made more than 800 presentations and testified in well over 300 criminal cases in the areas of molecular biology, population genetics, statistics, quality assurance and forensic biology.

In addition, he has authored or co-authored books on molecular biology techniques, electrophoresis, protein detection, forensic genetics and microbial forensics.

Dr Budowle recently retired as Director of the Center for Human Identification and Regents Professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Texas where his efforts focused on the areas of human forensic identification, microbial forensics and emerging infectious disease with substantial emphasis in genomics and next generation sequencing.

He continues to research and work in the areas of forensic genomics and contributes to supporting humanitarian efforts via human identification. He currently is a visiting professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Helsinki and an adjunct professor in the Forensic Science Institute at Radford University.

Dr Anil Alexander

Oxford Wave Research

Dr Anil Alexander is an expert in forensic voice and speaker recognition and is the CEO and co-founder of Oxford Wave Research, a company that has developed a speaker recognition system used in forensic laboratories around the world.

Dr Alexander has a PhD (2005) in forensic automatic speaker recognition from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). His doctoral work focussed on quantifying the strength of voice evidence in mismatched recording conditions and was in close collaboration with the Faculty of Law and Criminal Sciences at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland.

He has also served as an expert in forensic audio and speaker recognition cases. Dr Alexander is currently an external PhD co-supervisor at the University of Cambridge in the areas of voice similarity and voice spoofing by humans and machines. He is also an affiliate member of the NIST (National Institute of Standards, USA) OSAC Speaker Recognition Subcommittee, where he contributes to developing standards and guidelines for forensic speaker recognition.

He has also previously chaired the Research Committee of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA). His 'open box' design philosophy centres around creating real-world forensic software systems that allow forensic scientists to look inside, observe and understand how these systems work.

Professor Stuart Russell

University of California, Berkeley

Stuart Russell is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI and the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public.

He is a recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award and Research Excellence Award and held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris. In 2021 he received an OBE from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and gave the Reith Lectures. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

His book "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI, used in 1500 universities in 135 countries. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence, with a current emphasis on the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. He has developed a new global seismic monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty and is currently working to ban lethal autonomous weapons.

Vincenzo Rinaldi

University of Dundee, UK

Vincenzo Rinaldi is a VR/AR Application Specialist at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee, UK. His current research interests deal with innovative ways of 3D imaging and digitalization of the scenes of investigative interest by exploring the implementation of virtual reconstructions in crime scene analysis. This is done by creating acquisition standards and validated methodologies to examine how Extended Reality could aid with training, competence testing and investigations.

Vincenzo graduated cum laude with a Master's degree in Software Engineering at the University of Catania in AY 2017-18. After graduation, he worked as a Research and Development Engineer and Full Stack Developer, primarily looking into implementing Extended Reality (XR) to enhance museums, medical education, and security.

Dr Eoghan Casey

University of Lausanne and OwnBackup

Dr Eoghan Casey is an expert in digital forensic science and incident response. He is VP of Cybersecurity Strategy & Product Development at OwnBackup, creating innovative solutions for SaaS data protection and analytics. He performs teaching, research, and expertise at the University of Lausanne as a professor in the School of Criminal Sciences.

As Chief Scientist of the DoD Cyber Crime Center, he was responsible for innovation, strategic collaborations, and advancing standards and practices. Eoghan has experience working on a wide range of complex digital investigations, and has helped organizations investigate and recover from severe security breaches. He has delivered expert testimony in civil and criminal matters internationally.

Dr Casey wrote the foundational book Digital Evidence and Computer Crime. He has contributed to development of capabilities for extracting and analysing digital evidence, including SQLite Dissect and DC3 Advanced Carver (Patent no. 16/014067).

He also serves on the Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS) Board of Directors.

Professor Niamh NicDaeid FRSE

University of Dundee, UK

Professor Niamh Nic Daeid is a Chartered Chemist and authorised forensic scientist. She is a Professor of Forensic Science and Director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and holds fellowships of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Chartered Society of Forensic Science, the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland, the Royal Statistical Society and the UK Association of Fire Investigators. 

She has held leadership positions with the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) as a past chair of the fire and explosion investigation working group and as vice chair of the scientific advisory board of the International Criminal Court for six years. She is a forensic expert advisor to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and is also vice chair of the Dundee Drugs Commission investigating drug related deaths in Dundee. 

Professor Bruce Budowle

University of North Texas, US

Dr Bruce Budowle received a PhD in Genetics in 1979 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. From 1979-1982, Dr Budowle was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Working under a National Cancer Institute fellowship, he carried out research predominately on genetic risk factors for diseases such as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, melanoma and acute lymphocytic leukaemia.

From 1983-2009, Dr Budowle worked at the FBI’s Laboratory Division to carry out research, development and validation of methods for forensic biological analyses. He has published more than 700 articles, made more than 800 presentations and testified in well over 300 criminal cases in the areas of molecular biology, population genetics, statistics, quality assurance and forensic biology.

In addition, he has authored or co-authored books on molecular biology techniques, electrophoresis, protein detection, forensic genetics and microbial forensics.

Dr Budowle recently retired as Director of the Center for Human Identification and Regents Professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Texas where his efforts focused on the areas of human forensic identification, microbial forensics and emerging infectious disease with substantial emphasis in genomics and next generation sequencing.

He continues to research and work in the areas of forensic genomics and contributes to supporting humanitarian efforts via human identification. He currently is a visiting professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Helsinki and an adjunct professor in the Forensic Science Institute at Radford University.

Dr Eoghan Casey

University of Lausanne and OwnBackup

Dr Eoghan Casey is an expert in digital forensic science and incident response. He is VP of Cybersecurity Strategy & Product Development at OwnBackup, creating innovative solutions for SaaS data protection and analytics. He performs teaching, research, and expertise at the University of Lausanne as a professor in the School of Criminal Sciences.

As Chief Scientist of the DoD Cyber Crime Center, he was responsible for innovation, strategic collaborations, and advancing standards and practices. Eoghan has experience working on a wide range of complex digital investigations, and has helped organizations investigate and recover from severe security breaches. He has delivered expert testimony in civil and criminal matters internationally.

Dr Casey wrote the foundational book Digital Evidence and Computer Crime. He has contributed to development of capabilities for extracting and analysing digital evidence, including SQLite Dissect and DC3 Advanced Carver (Patent no. 16/014067).

He also serves on the Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS) Board of Directors.

Vincenzo Rinaldi

University of Dundee, UK

Vincenzo Rinaldi is a VR/AR Application Specialist at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee, UK. His current research interests deal with innovative ways of 3D imaging and digitalization of the scenes of investigative interest by exploring the implementation of virtual reconstructions in crime scene analysis. This is done by creating acquisition standards and validated methodologies to examine how Extended Reality could aid with training, competence testing and investigations.

Vincenzo graduated cum laude with a Master's degree in Software Engineering at the University of Catania in AY 2017-18. After graduation, he worked as a Research and Development Engineer and Full Stack Developer, primarily looking into implementing Extended Reality (XR) to enhance museums, medical education, and security.

Professor Stuart Russell

University of California, Berkeley

Stuart Russell is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI and the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public.

He is a recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award and Research Excellence Award and held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris. In 2021 he received an OBE from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and gave the Reith Lectures. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

His book "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI, used in 1500 universities in 135 countries. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence, with a current emphasis on the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. He has developed a new global seismic monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty and is currently working to ban lethal autonomous weapons.

Dr Anil Alexander

Oxford Wave Research

Dr Anil Alexander is an expert in forensic voice and speaker recognition and is the CEO and co-founder of Oxford Wave Research, a company that has developed a speaker recognition system used in forensic laboratories around the world.

Dr Alexander has a PhD (2005) in forensic automatic speaker recognition from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). His doctoral work focussed on quantifying the strength of voice evidence in mismatched recording conditions and was in close collaboration with the Faculty of Law and Criminal Sciences at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland.

He has also served as an expert in forensic audio and speaker recognition cases. Dr Alexander is currently an external PhD co-supervisor at the University of Cambridge in the areas of voice similarity and voice spoofing by humans and machines. He is also an affiliate member of the NIST (National Institute of Standards, USA) OSAC Speaker Recognition Subcommittee, where he contributes to developing standards and guidelines for forensic speaker recognition.

He has also previously chaired the Research Committee of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA). His 'open box' design philosophy centres around creating real-world forensic software systems that allow forensic scientists to look inside, observe and understand how these systems work.

Mr Justice Wall

High Court Judge, King's Bench Division

Mark Wall was a barrister between 1985 and 2014. He was a criminal law specialist throughout his career. He became a QC in 2005, was appointed a Circuit Judge based in Birmingham in 2014 and a High Court Judge in 2020.

He has had a long standing interest in Forensic Science. He is a member of the Royal Society Science and the Law Committee and has been involved in the Primers Programme since its inception. He is the Chair of the Advisory Board to the Leverhulme Centre for Forensic Science based at the University of Dundee. He has also served as the judicial representative on the Forensic Science Regulator's Advisory Board.

Lord Justice Birss

Deputy Head of Civil Justice

Colin Birss is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and Deputy Head of Civil Justice. He graduated from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences (1986), programmed computers for two years, and then studied law. He was called to the English Bar in 1990 and practised in intellectual property law (QC 2008).

In 2010 he became a judge, first of the Patents County Court (now IPEC) and then, in 2013, in the High Court. In 2019 he became Judge in Charge of the Patents Court and in 2021 he was appointed to his current roles.

He is also an independent judicial member of the EPO Boards of Appeal Committee, General Editor of Terrell on the Law of Patents, a Council member of the UK Foundation for Science and Technology, and serves on the Advisory Group for the Ireland Courts Service Modernisation Programme.

Professor Gill Tully CBE

King's College London, UK

Gill Tully has over 30 years' experience spanning research, casework and regulation in forensic science. She is Professor of Practice for Forensic Science Policy and Regulation at King's College London, in addition to providing training and consultancy services.

From November 2014 to February 2021, she was the Forensic Science Regulator for England and Wales, responsible for setting quality standards for forensic science in the Criminal Justice System and for advising and challenging Government. Gill has given evidence to multiple Parliamentary Committees as well as providing expert evidence in courts in England and Wales and overseas.

With several granted patents, numerous peer reviewed publications and experience of taking research ideas from inception to court, Gill has a record of effective innovation. She has advised the Government and companies on bringing research to market and has actively collaborated internationally. Her research interests include improving the quality and effectiveness of forensic science and improving the interface between science and the law.

In her training and consultancy role, Gill works with forensic science leaders and practitioners to assist with improving the quality, reliability and effective application of forensic science, from crime scene to court.

In 2020, Gill was awarded a CBE for services to forensic science. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, an Honorary Member of the Society of Legal Scholars and a member of the International Society of Forensic Genetics.

Professor Thomas D Albright

Vision Center Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, CA, US

Thomas D Albright is Professor and Conrad T Prebys Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He is an authority on the neural basis of visual perception, memory and visually guided behaviour.

An important goal of Professor Albright's work is the development of therapies for perceptual impairments resulting from disease, trauma, or developmental disorders of the brain. A second aim of his work is to use growing knowledge of brain, perception, and memory to inform societal decisions.

Professor Albright received a PhD in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Albright served on the NAS Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, on the National Commission on Forensic Science (an advisory body to the US Department of Justice), and on the human factors committee of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science. He has also served as co-chair of the NAS Committee on Scientific Approaches to Eyewitness Identification, which produced the 2014 report Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification.

Professor Gill Tully CBE

King's College London, UK

Gill Tully has over 30 years' experience spanning research, casework and regulation in forensic science. She is Professor of Practice for Forensic Science Policy and Regulation at King's College London, in addition to providing training and consultancy services.

From November 2014 to February 2021, she was the Forensic Science Regulator for England and Wales, responsible for setting quality standards for forensic science in the Criminal Justice System and for advising and challenging Government. Gill has given evidence to multiple Parliamentary Committees as well as providing expert evidence in courts in England and Wales and overseas.

With several granted patents, numerous peer reviewed publications and experience of taking research ideas from inception to court, Gill has a record of effective innovation. She has advised the Government and companies on bringing research to market and has actively collaborated internationally. Her research interests include improving the quality and effectiveness of forensic science and improving the interface between science and the law.

In her training and consultancy role, Gill works with forensic science leaders and practitioners to assist with improving the quality, reliability and effective application of forensic science, from crime scene to court.

In 2020, Gill was awarded a CBE for services to forensic science. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, an Honorary Member of the Society of Legal Scholars and a member of the International Society of Forensic Genetics.

Hon Barbara J Rothstein

United States District Court, Western District of Washington, US

Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein was appointed to the federal bench in 1980. She was chief judge of the Western District of Washington from 1987-1994. She served as a King County Superior Court judge and was appointed Director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC in 2003.

Prior to that, she practised law with a private firm in Boston, Massachusetts, and with the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division of the State of Washington’s Attorney General’s office.

Judge Rothstein graduated from Cornell University and attended Harvard Law School. She has taught trial practice at the University of Washington Law School.

She is currently on the Board of the Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University Law School and has worked extensively with judges in Judicial Training Institutes around the world, particularly in Africa and Asia where she has lectured frequently on many subjects.

Mr Justice Richard Meade

High Court Judge of England and Wales, in charge of intellectual property

After working in computing for two years, he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1991 and practised intellectual property law, mainly patents, from 8 New Square. He also appeared before the European Court of Justice and European Patent Office. He took silk in 2008, and was appointed deputy High Court judge in 2011.

In September 2020, he was appointed a full time judge of the High Court, assigned to the Chancery Division. He is the Judge in Charge of the Patents Court and Intellectual Property.

His work, at the Bar and since becoming a Judge, has nearly always concerned technology, including chemistry, molecular biology, pharmaceuticals (small molecules and biological molecules, especially antibody drugs), computer programs and algorithms, and mobile phones.

He has worked with or against, or heard evidence from, hundreds of scientists, up to and including Nobel prize winners such as Aaron Klug, Harold Varmus, Sydney Brenner, George Smith, Greg Winter, Michael Houghton, John Walker.

Professor Lucina Hackman

University of Dundee, UK

Lucina Hackman is a Professor of Forensic Anthropology based in the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee. Professor Hackman is a practising, Chartered forensic anthropologist and has undertaken a wide range of casework in this capacity. One of her areas of specialty is in the identification of age in the living for the purposes of assisting investigations in asylum seekers and refugees. She has authored a chapter in a recent text on this subject, is co-editor on two texts on human identification, has numerous peer reviewed publications and has authored a large number of book chapters. She was lead author on both the UK Code of Practice for Forensic Anthropology as well as for the judicial primer on Forensic Anthropology.

Professor Hackman has given expert evidence in both Scottish and English courts on a number of occasions in relation to both trauma analysis, identification and age estimation. She has been recognised as a member of the Home Office, UK Disaster Victim Identification response capability.

Dame Victoria Sharp DBE

President of the King's Bench Division

Dame Victoria Sharp read law at Bristol University, was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1979 and took silk in 2001. She became a Recorder in 1998-2008.

She was appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2008, and a High Court Judge of the Queen's Bench Division (now King's Bench Division) in 2009.

She was a Presiding Judge on the Western Circuit from 2012 to 2013. She was appointed as a Lady Justice of Appeal in 2013.

She was appointed as the Vice-President of the Queen's Bench Division (now King's Bench Division) in January 2016, and President of the Queen's Bench Division in June 2019. In February 2020, she was appointed as Deputy Head of Criminal Justice.

Dame Victoria succeeded Sir Brian Leveson and is the first woman to hold the position of President of the Queen's Bench Division and subsequently is the first woman to hold the position of President of the King's Bench Division.