Academic Committee meeting of FFLM – discussion about difficulties with specialty status.  Evidence given in Canterbury CC, Wolverhampton CC for respectively defence and Crown in s18 cases;  attendance at HMP Belmarsh to undertake health assessment  of remand prisoner; examination of knives in attempt murder case.  On call for Met Police as FME.  Two court cases in coming week – alternative causes of bizarre behaviour and theoretical effects of specific type of assault. Nice review of Age Estimation in the Living in American Journal of Human Biology 2012 24 (1) 89-90.  The generous review concludes ‘…. Black, Aggrawal, and Payne-James have compiled a series of very thoroughly researched and well written chapters on age estimation in living humans, with sufficient background to guide the non-specialist. The final chapter, authored by the editors, summarizes the key considerations that must precede an age estimation investigation and the four ‘‘pillars’’ of age estimation: social and psychological evaluation, external estimation, skeletal estimation, and dental estimation. As a biological anthropologist who works primarily with skeletal and dental elements of humans and other species, I am  impressed by the thoughtful analysis and detail in the subject areas familiar to me. I appreciate the careful attention to the problems of relevant samples and sample sizes for age estimation. The most interesting and provocative parts of the book are those that discuss legal and ethical issues and unique problems associated with age estimation in living humans. This book is highly relevant for healthcare practitioners, for those in fields supporting the social justice and legal systems, and for students and scholars studying age estimation in both living and deceased humans. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in human growth and development, or any of the many factors that influence the timing of human maturation.’