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  • Should innocent people be on the DNA database?

    Carl Gardner
    April 28, 2010

    It’s unfashionable to say yes, but I was defending that position again in the Times last week.

    Some say that DNA taken from some suspects on arrest can legitimately be compared with unidentified DNA from unsolved crimes. So it’s all […]

    Tags: crime, dna, human rights, liberty
  • Defending the DNA database

    Carl Gardner
    March 26, 2010

    I wrote at Comment is Free yesterday, defending the government’s proposals on retention of DNA profiles in the Crime and Security Bill, and generally arguing against the idea that profile retention is a major invasion of human rights:

    … much […]

    Tags: crime, dna, human rights, police, private life
  • Lords judgment: AG’s reference no. 3 of 1999 – application by the BBC

    Carl Gardner
    June 28, 2009

    I don’t propose to comment at any length on this Lords judgment from the week before last. It has interesting facts, and signals that the BBC are planning to screen an interesting programme about possible “wrong acquittals”, which in […]

    Tags: crime, dna, human rights, media law, rape
  • S and Marper v UK

    Carl Gardner
    December 4, 2008

    The European Court of Human Rights has today ruled against the UK in this important case about retention of DNA samples and profiles as well as fingerprints. S had been charged with attempted burglary when 11 in 2001; he […]

    Tags: dna, human rights, lord pannick, private life
  • Pannick on DNA

    Carl Gardner
    March 11, 2008

    Wow! I actually agree again with David Pannick in his Times column today. And not just on DNA and the UK’s defence in S and Marper case. I also think his comments on […]

    Tags: dna, human rights, UK Supreme Court
  • S and Marper v United Kingdom: hearing

    Carl Gardner
    February 27, 2008

    This morning the European Court of Human Rights heard this case, about the UK’s DNA database: Messrs. S and Marper argue that keeping their DNA on the database is in breach of their rights under article 8 of the ECHR […]

    Tags: dna, human rights
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