ABSTRACT
The aim of forensic gait analysis is the production for the court of an objective and unbiased report based on accurate, thorough assessment of the available gait evidence. The centre of the scale represents an outcome that the forensic gait analysis supports neither of the opposing propositions based on the combination of the features of gait that were seen to be compatible, seen to differ or could be compared, and the limitations of the footage. The method by which the probative value of gait analysis evidence is typically expressed is based on the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes’ scale of verbal expressions. Once the final verified report has been produced, it is the responsibility, as the gait analyst who undertook the casework, to recheck the report for typographical and content errors before signing and dating the report, getting the verifier to sign, date the report, sending it to the commissioner together with a copy of the curriculum vitae.
