Child Witness in UK Law

  • Immigration Tribunal Appeals - A Practical Guide (4)
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... additional needs for a vulnerable or a child witness. You may ... need to consider whether there should be a ... ...
  • How To Appeal A UK Visa Or Immigration Refusal
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... the couple have now had a child and this has not previously been ... considered by the SSHD, because the ... additional needs for a vulnerable or child witness. You may need to ... consider whether there should be a preliminary ... ...
  • NDAs And Tribunal Witness Orders – Which Prevails?
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... declined to assist her, praying in her defence both the NDA and also that the hearing would be within a few weeks only after the birth of her child ... Christie applied for a witness order in respect of Ms L under Rule 32 of the ET Rules of Procedure 2013. This says that the ET "may order any ... ...
  • NDAs and Tribunal witness orders – which prevails? (UK)
    • LexBlog United Kingdom
    In all the hoo-hah around the use of NDAs in settlement agreement, no one yet seems to have asked the question of what happens if you sign such an agreement and are then called as witness to the Em...
    ... ... declined to assist her, praying in her defence both the NDA and also that the hearing would be within a few weeks only after the birth of her child. Christie applied for a witness order in respect of Ms L under Rule 32 of the ET Rules of Procedure 2013. This says that the ET may order any person ... ...
  • Child's Play? The Question Of Sanction For Counsel In The All-Scotland Sheriff Court
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... to J than any other case.  And even if taking evidence of a child may, in some circumstances, require more skill than from a normal adult witness, there had in any event been no need to instruct counsel at such an early stage ... The decision ... The court found it was reasonable in all ... ...
  • Briefing For Charities & Social Enterprises | 8 August
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... Since 2007, the Commission has been ... engaging with Jehovah's Witness charities about safeguarding ... and child protection issues, leading to ... ...
  • Employment Briefing - August 2011
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ... ... The Court of Appeal in the case of D (a child) has held that the attachment of privilege to legal advice was waived when that advice was referred to in detail in the contents of a witness statement from one of the parties in child care proceedings. The court ... ...
  • Reforms to witness statements (PD 57AC): sense, finally, after a century of psychological research; or, a triumph of form over substance?
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    In 1995, Elizabeth Loftus and Jacqueline Pickerell published a paper showing that it was possible to implant an entire false memory of something that never happened. In one of the first successful ...
    ... ... , the subject was supplied with three true events that happened in his childhood and one false one: that he had been lost in a mall as a child. The subject came to believe he had in fact been lost in the mall ... The Witness Evidence Working Group was born, in Spring 2018, out of a concern ... ...
  • High Court Order Obtained For Live-saving Blood Transfusion
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... blood transfusion to an 11-year old child ... We recently assisted an NHS Trust to obtain an emergency High ... fulfilled, and provide written evidence in a witness statement on ... the specific situation, the proposed treatment, current ... ...
  • Abuse Allegations ' How Does The Court Determine The Truth?
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... allegations? ... It is sadly not unusual for one party to child arrangements proceedings to make ... allegations of abuse against the ... therefore form a view as to the credibility of each witness, and ... the reliability of their evidence. Obviously, the evidence of a ... ...
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