FORENSIC CHEMISTRY FUNDAMENTALS strives to help scientists & lawyers, & students, understand how their two disciplines come together for forensic science, in the contexts of analytical chemistry & related science more generally, and the common law systems of Canada, USA, UK, the Commonwealth. In this book, forensics is considered more generally than as only for criminal law; workplace health & safety, and other areas are included. And, two issues of Canadian legal process are argued as essays in the final two chapters.

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Contents
• About the author
• Chapter 1 Science and law
• Chapter 2 Essential concepts of forensic science
• Chapter 3 Analytical approach
• Chapter 4 Uniqueness of matter
• Chapter 5 Site and lab procedure, and documentation
• Chapter 6 Analysis, instrumentation and methods
• Chapter 7 When
• Chapter 8 Error
• Chapter 9 Report
• Chapter 10 Essay – biased opinion – polemic. Canada Controlled Drugs & Substances Act – ipse dixit
• Chapter 11 Essay – biased opinion – polemic. Canada Criminal Code – driving impaired by drug – science?
• Index