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Professor Ronald C Denney BSc, Hon DSc, PhD, CSci, CChem, FRSC, FCSFS has been a consultant for more than thirty years and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Forensic Scientists, a member of the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, and a member of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists.He has worked in areas of drug synthesis, analysis, pharmacokinetics and DNA interpretation, and has also provided a consultancy service in shipped and transported goods. He is frequently called to give expert evidence in court cases and is supported by an administrative team, enabling him to provide a rapid and efficient forensic service.

Important Data

Appearances as Expert Witness in Court: more than 500.
Forensic Reports Prepared: more than 3500.
Legal Aid work undertaken.
Fees: details available here.

Areas of Consultancy

FORENSIC SCIENCE - including interpretation of scientific data from analytical, spectroscopic, chromatographic, and microscopic data
DRINK/DRIVE CASES - expert witness, alcohol backtrack calculations, alcohol and accidents, breath testing instruments and their operation
DRUGS TESTING - illegal drugs manufacturing cases, drugs and driving, validity of sports drugs analyses
DNA - interpretation of DNA results in assaults, robbery and sexual abuse cases
BREATH TESTING - screening and evidential instruments, operation and reliability, assessment of ability to provide breath samples
BREATH/BLOOD ALCOHOL VALUES - back-calculations, inter-conversions, long term effects, rates of alcohol absorption and elimination
HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS - involvement in industrial and personal injuries, causes and effects
PHARMACEUTICAL & CLINICAL ANALYSIS - validity of results, effects and side-effects of drugs
GENERAL SCIENTIFIC ANALYTICAL DATA - relating to glass, fibres, materials

Cases

1. A typical drink-drive case will be a post-driving drinks defence or a laced drinks special reasons plea involving calculations using the Widmark equation to establish whether or not the extra alcohol has been responsible for the motorist producing a breath or blood alcohol value in excess of the legal limit.

Similar calculations are used involving metabolic rates for alcohol with respect to alleged offences of motorists being 'in charge' of a motor vehicle with a breath alcohol level in excess of the legal limit. Back calculations relating to road accidents and assaults are also carried out.

2. Drugs cases may be concerned with possession and of establishing whether or not a person was under the influence of drugs at a time when an alleged crime was committed. Cases may also be concerned with whether or not a driver had a drug level in excess of the specified limit.

3. Checking DNA results and interpretations arises in assault, rape and sexual abuse cases and even in some drug cases.

4. Some crimes involve assaults from the use of dangerous chemicals. In these instances, analysis, knowledge and experience of the chemicals is necessary. A similar situation arises with industrial injuries arising from chemically polluted atmospheres.

5. A typical burglary may lead to detailed studies with interpretation of footprints from the location, analysis of fibres of clothing left behind and analyses of glass particles on clothing from someone allegedly involved with the crime.

Fees

The following charges, which are negotiable, will be applied as standard for normal cases involving consideration of data, preparation of reports and court attendance. Special rates may apply where work includes additional instrumental tests, the carrying out of chemical analyses, attendance at police stations, or dealing with matters relating to drugs or dangerous chemicals. We will be happy to discuss anticipated costs on request, or appropriate fees for prolonged duration studies or overseas travel.

1.	For studying documents supplied, carrying out any necessary calculations with respect to alcohol and preparation of report, depending upon total work involved, minimum charge:	£300.00
2.	For subsequent preparation of Section 9 Statements, minimum charge:	£150.00
3.	For pre-court preparation, travelling to and attendance at court:	£100.00 per hour or £600.00 per whole day
4.	Travelling time for day prior to hearing (where required), or for site visitation:	£60.00 per hour
5.	Plus all expenses for hotels, mileage (at £0.45 per mile), fares, meals, parking

These rates are within the Lord Chancellor's recommended figures for Expert Witnesses.

Additional Information

Professor Denney has an extensive scientific background which has involved working in the chemical industry as well as a university lecturer and research worker in addition to his many years providing a consultancy service. As a result he has travelled widely and is familiar with having to meet very short deadlines in legal and insurance cases. Preliminary technical advice will be provided on request and inspection and testing of samples carried out if required.

Until March 1995 he was Principal Lecturer and Reader in Organo-Analytical Chemistry at the University of Greenwich and now runs his own business as a Forensic Scientist and Industrial Consultant, and has been visiting Professor in Forensic Science at Kingston University. He specialises in the areas of alcohol, drugs, dangerous chemicals and DNA interpretation and is considered to be one of the country's leading authorities on the subject of drinking, drugs and driving.

He is frequently called to give evidence as an expert witness in murder, assault, rape and burglary cases involving the abuse of alcohol or drugs and has also been involved in several major trials concerning the synthesis of illegal drugs.

Professor Denney has written numerous technical books, including four on alcohol, drugs and accidents, as well as papers and articles on alcohol, drugs and the law.

Publications

R.C. Denney, 'Convictions in Sexual Abuse Cases', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, (2007), 100, 397-398.

R.C. Denney, 'Reducing the Toll of Road Traffic Accidents', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, (2003), 96, 617.

R.C. Denney & R. Sleeman, 'Advances in the Detection of Drugs on Banknotes', Poster at TIAFT Int. Conference Melbourne, (2003).

R.C. Denney, 'Body Fluids', in 'Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences' Eds. J.A. Siegel, P.J. Saukko & G.C. Knupfer, Harcourt Publishers Ltd., 2000.

J. Mendham, R.C. Denney, J.D. Barnes & M.J.K. Thomas, 'Vogel's Textbook of Quantitative Chemical Analysis', 6th Edition, Pearson Education, 2000.

Ronald C. Denney, 'The Intoximeter 3000 & the Four Minute Fallacy', Medicine, Science & Law, (1998), Vol. 38, No. 2, 163-164.

Ronald C. Denney, 'None For The Road', Shaw & Sons, 1997.

R.C. Denney, 'Factors Affecting Non-prosecution of Over the Limit Motorists in Great Britain', Proceedings of the 13th Int. Conf. on Alcohol, Drugs & Traffic Safety, 573-576, Adelaide, (1995).

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