Best Paper in a Refereed Journal

Winner

Duncan Taylor, John Buckleton, Ian Evett. Testing likelihood ratios produced from complex DNA profiles.

Highly Commended

John Berketa, Helen James, Neil Langlois, Lindsay Richards, Paul Pigou. Use of a non-volatile agent to stabilize severely incinerated dental remains.

Highly Commended

Kaye Ballantyne, Duncan Taylor, Denise Ward et al. Toward male individualization with rapidly mutating Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats.

Best Technical Article or Note

Winner

Jo-Anne Bright, Kate Stevenson, James Curran, John Buckleton. The variability in likelihood ratios due to different mechanisms.

Best Literature Review

Winner

Roger Byard. Frailty syndrome – Medicolegal considerations.

Best Case Study

Winner

Claire Ross, Neil Langlois, Karen Heath, Roger Byard. Further evidence for a lack of reliability in the histologic ageing of bruises – an autopsy study.

The Henry Delaforce Award

Winner

Troy O’Malley. Forensic informatics enabling forensic intelligence.