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A highly-skilled and respected scientist with over 13 years’ experience in the field of forensics, Marie joined AlphaBiolabs in 2022 and oversees the company’s growing toxicology team.

As Head of Toxicology, Marie’s day-to-day responsibilities include maintaining the highest quality testing standards for toxicology and further enhancing AlphaBiolabs’ drug and alcohol testing services for the legal sector, members of the public, and the workplace sector. 

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Professor Nigel Lowe LLB (Sheffield), LLD (Cardiff). Barrister of the Inner Temple. He has been a Professor of Law at Cardiff Law School since 1991 and Head of School since 2010.

He has written extensively and has given numerous papers both nationally and internationally.

He is an editor of Family Law Reports, a consultant editor of International Family Law and is a member of the editorial board for Child and Family Law Quarterly. He is also one of the authors of the much acclaimed book International Movement of Children: Law, Practice and Procedureand The 1996 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children. Nigel is also a contributor to The Continuing Evolution of Family Law (all titles Family Law).

Together with Victoria Stephens, he has completed (August 2012) a report The Timing of 1980 Hague Abduction Convention Applications; the 2011 Findings which was a project funded by the Nuffield Foundation. They also presented A Statistical Analysis of Applications Made in 2008 Under the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction at the 6th Special Commission to review the operation of the 1980 Convention held at The Hague in June 2011 (a report is available on The Hague website).

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