This page provides you with useful information and materials to help you with cases that involve hair strand testing.
For information on how we believe hair strand testing evidence could be instructed in the family justice system – please refer to this News Article.
Videos
1. The importance of chain of evidence in hair strand testing
2. What does the law say about hair strand testing?
3. Why cut-off levels in hair strand testing fail
4. Variations in results from different laboratories
5. Racial bias in hair strand testing
6. Does the presence of a drug in a hair strand test result mean that the person has taken that drug?
7. What influences the levels of drugs found in the hair when forensically tested?
8. How to successfully challenge hair strand test results that use cut-off levels in family law cases
9. What needs to change in the use of hair strand test results in family law
10. What are the hidden costs of not interrogating hair strand test results in family law?
Downloadable Templates
Order for drug and alcohol evidence
Please use the template below. Word and PDF options available for you to download and use.
Draft Letter of Instruction
Please use the template below. Word and PDF options available for you to download and use.
FLBA Lecture Series
Please find the presentations and documents used during the FLBA Autumn Lecture Series below.
