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  Serving The Criminal Justice System

  Mike Scott-Ham is one of the UK’s most experienced and respected Forensic Toxicologists with more than 35 years experience and undertakes consultancy and training nationally and internationally.

  He has had 100s of court appearances as an Expert Witness including high profile cases and he was the former Principal Forensic Toxicologist at the Forensic Science Service until its closure.

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  Consultancy

  We can provide national and international consultancy and advice on

  – toxicology (alcohol and drugs) aspects as expert witnesses in criminal and civil proceedings for solicitors and insurance companies

  – quality and accreditation issues

  – methodologies for analytical toxicology and drugs laboratories to provide efficiency gains

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  Training

  We can provide :

  – a wide range of scientific courses to toxicologists but also forensic toxicology talks for police officers, police surgeons, solicitors and others

  – an expert witness course suitable for forensic scientists, pathologists and other medicolegal professionals

UK and International consultancy/advice/expert witness

• Reviewing casework and writing detailed peer-reviewed reports as toxicology expert witnesses for solicitors and private clients on a wide range of casework involving drugs and alcohol such as drugs and driving (including the new Section 5A prescribed limit drugs and driving offence), alcohol and driving (e.g. hip-flask defences), criminal casework including rapes, drug-facilitated sexual crimes (drink-spiking), suspicious deaths and murders
• Reviewing civil casework and writing detailed peer-reviewed reports as toxicology expert witnesses for insurance companies
• Preparing laboratories for accreditation

UK and International training with workshops

• Alcohol and Drugs uses and effects for toxicologists
• Toxicology interpretation
• Alcohol Technical Defence (Hip-flask and laced drink calculations)
• Authorised Analyst (Alcohol and driving)
• Drugs and driving including the new Section 5A prescribed limit offence
• Expert witness courses

Publications

• Scientific papers including drug-facilitated crime (date-rape) and drugs and driving - see Profile page
• Symptoms & Signs of Substance Misuse 3rd Edition (CRC Press, 2015)
• Chapter in 'Forensic Toxicology Drug Use & Misuse' (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016)
• Chapter in 'Detection of Drug Misuse - Biomarkers, Analytical Advances & Interpretation (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017)

Professional indemnity insurance and full confidentiality