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The ITV programme Loose Women faced a backlash last September from a poll entitled “is it ever a woman’s fault if she is raped?” The viewers’ response to the poll was 88% “no” and the help centre Rape Crisis unequivocally responded that rape is the fault of the rapist, no matter what the situation. This…

Increasingly entering common parlance is the term “paternity fraud” which is the naming of a man as being the biological father of a child by that child’s mother, when in fact, she knows he is not the father. Paternity fraud is a subset of “mis-attributed paternity”, where a child has been fathered by one man,…

Many family law, inheritance and social services cases are now being resolved by the use of DNA technology in order to determine parentage or other biological relationships. Thus it is a pleasure to welcome you to a series of articles in which we hope to explain how best to use DNA testing in your practice,…