Science and law --- Essential concepts of forensic science --- Analytical approach --- Uniqueness of matter --- Site and lab procedure, and documentation --- Analysis, instrumentation and methods --- When --- Error --- Report --- Essay – biased opinion – polemic. Canada Controlled Drugs & Substances Act – ipse dixit --- Essay – biased opinion – polemic. Canada Criminal Code – driving impaired by drug – science?

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.