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Apologies if you have already booked your place, but please see below for an invitation to the launch of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ report on the forensic use of DNA and fingerprinting next week. This important topic is currently high on the political and media agenda, and I very much hope you will be able to join us to discuss the Council’s recommendations.
Kind regards
Catherine Joynson
The forensic use of DNA and fingerprints: an ethical debate
Tuesday 18th September 2007, 10:30-13:00
76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT
At this seminar the Nuffield Council on Bioethics will be launching its latest Report: The Forensic Use of Bioinformation: Ethical Issues.
Members of the Working Group will be discussing:
§ police powers to take DNA and store it permanently on the National DNA Database, including that of witnesses, victims, children and people who are not later convicted
§ the expanding uses of the National DNA Database, for example, for ‘familial searching’ and ‘ethnic inferencing’
§ the establishment of a population-wide DNA database
§ the use of bioinformation in court and
§ regulation of and access to the National DNA Database.
Speakers will include:
Professor Sir Bob Hepple QC
Chairman of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Professor Graeme Laurie
Director, AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology, University of Edinburgh
Dr Bronwyn Parry
Reader in Social and Cultural Geography, Queen Mary University of London
Professor Andrew Read
Chair of Human Genetics, University of Manchester
Dr Carole McCartney
Lecturer, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds
Vivienne Parry, Writer and Broadcaster, will be facilitating the discussion.
Copies of the report will be available at the seminar. Admission is free but places should be reserved in advance. If you would like to attend, or for more information, please send your name, affiliation (if applicable) and email address (or postal address) to:
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7681 9619
Fax: +44 (0)20 7637 1712
For further information see: www.nuffieldbioethics.org
Catherine Joynson
Communications & External Affairs Manager
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
28 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3JS
Tel: +44 (0)20 7681 9619
Fax: +44 (0)20 7637 1712
Email: cjoynson@nuffieldbioethics.org
Web: www.nuffieldbioethics.org