Queensland Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman has flagged major changes to the state’s double jeopardy laws in the wake of a damning inquiry into the state-run forensics lab.

$95 million dollars has been allocated following the inquiry into the John Tonge Centre, with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk saying she wants to restore faith in the state’s forensics services.

The government has accepted all of the 123 recommendations from the inquiry.

Thousands of criminal cases including rapes and homicides, could be reviewed as a result of the inquiry.

9News senior reporter Tim Arvier says it was an extraordinary press conference for the funding pledge.

“The biggest takeaways from this is the double jeopardy laws,” he said.

“In Queensland at the moment double jeopardy is allowed for murder, so if someone has faced a murder trial and been found not guilty and later on some new evidence comes to light … that person can be re-tried it; sonly for murder at the moment.

“What the Attorney-General wants to do, Shannon Fentiman, and this legislation will be taken to parliament next year, is expand that to other serious indictable offences, things like rape and sexual assault.”

He said the other extraordinary element to the press conference was Health Minister Yvette D’Ath “savaging” her own department’s role and saying there were widespread cultural issues.

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