EU-UK criminal justice and security cooperation after Brexit: A perspective.

The prospect of significantly reduced and potentially unstable EU-UK criminal justice cooperation under the 2020 Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) unless criminal justice professionals and academics can help to shape its future development.Key wordsPost-Brexit readjustment process; The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA); EU-UK criminal justice cooperation.

The impact of Brexit on the future of UK forensic science and technology.

This article seeks to assess the prospects of UK forensic science and technology in a post-Brexit world by analysing four interlocking issues: Brexit itself, the evolution of national criminal justice organisational and funding priorities, the increasing interrelationship of science and technology in the forensic domain and the relatively disadvantaged place of forensic science and technology within the contemporary 'scientific state' paradigm. The results are generally pessimistic for the likely future of forensic science. This conclusion is reinforced by scepticism about the wisdom of proceeding with Brexit. The article is structured to identify the potential implications of British political decisions on its national forensic science capabilities and capacity. Some aspects of the analysis are likely to have a wider resonance for international discourse about the future sustainability of forensic science and technology, however, particularly the interface between the globalisation of science and technology with justice.

Not quite anyone's guess: Brexit, forensic science and legal medicine.

A few months before 29th March 2019 - the date when the UK is due to leave the EU ('Brexit') - the nature of the future UK-EU relationship is highly uncertain. Some of the consequences of the new relationship - whatever form it takes - for legal cooperation and everything (including forensic science and legal medicine) that underpins it can be anticipated. Further analysis, however, of the scope and significance of Brexit for the professional and academic scientific and clinical work covered by this journal is needed urgently. This commentary ends with an invitation to its readers to join a new academic and professional network (including professional corporate bodies and NGOs) intended to help facilitate this.