77 LAWYER MONTHLY EXPERT WITNESS AWARDS 2025 a complex delayed report instruction, involving a large casefile to a deadline of one week before trial. Such a pressure was fascinating to observe in regard of the challenging of my intellect to the extreme, a situation achieved remarkably without ill effect due to practice and experience! drjohndouse2@btinternet.com THE ORIGINAL TRACE OF THE FIRST DETECTION OF INSULIN (MW: 5807) IN A CASE SAMPLE OF DRIED BLOOD ANALYSED BY UHPLC MS-MS. THE PROCESS WAS DEVELOPED MID CASE OVER 36 HOURS (INTERRUPTED BY AN ORDER TO COURT TO GIVE EVIDENCE IN ANOTHER CASE) IN ORDER TO ALLOW THE CONFIRMATION OF TRACES BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN DETECTED BY LESS SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES (R v CAMPBELL NORRIS. LEEDS CROWN COURT, 2008) RICINUS COMMUNIS ZANZIBARENSIS FLOWER. CONTAINING THE CASTOR BEAN, THE SOURCE OF RICIN. ONE OF THE POTENTIALLY MOST TOXIC SUBSTANCES KNOWN, FOLLOWING TRANSFER INTO THE BLOOD AND TISSUES OF THE HUMAN BODY, DUE TO IT BEING A CATALYTIC BIOCHEMICAL POISON THE ORIGINAL GARDEN.COM A fascinating “one off” also occurred in the case of R v Isaacs (where by pure chance I was urgently able to assist, due to another trial being adjourned, and the Court likely to proceed without a report), and where my analysis of the casefile led to the finding of a CT scan showing the damage to the diseased and fragile shoulder in a terminally ill patient, having been present the day before the dedicated nursing assistants had performed a washing procedure, thus preventing an appalling miscarriage of justice. Tantalisingly, we have recently (2025) achieved the interesting situation of bringing to the Court’s notice the published use of Medical MRI scans to the study of the effects of Psilocybin from Magic Mushrooms; and the reported observation of the human brain becoming resynchronised by such exposure, to the equivalent extent of the natural difference in synchronisation between different individuals; and hence the possibility that this technique might be able to provide some form of actual scientific evidence of an existing state of automatism in an intoxicated individual. (J Siegel, Nature, 2024, (632),131). Future innovations that might be desirable are the development of two-dimensional DNA analysis, and where the developing profiles could be presented with time, especially at the sensitivity of the old SGM Plus technique, and which might possibly provide some possible form of discrimination of primary from higher orders of transfer, and also possibly even the contributions by different individuals to complex mixed profiles. In the case of glycerol in slushed ice drinks, it would be interesting if the medical experts could consider if the prompt uncontrolled consumption, by gulping, of up to 1.5 kilograms of finely crushed ice served at minus two degrees Celsius, (which might be prevented by careful packaging design), could possibly be contributing to the medical crises in some way, and that have been observed in very young children of low body mass. (The sale of fine confectionary products (e.g. “doughnuts”) containing high levels of glycerol also being noted, (by inspections), to be, not infrequently, for sale alongside slushed ice drink dispensers).
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