Child Witness in UK Law
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Facilitating Child Witness Interviewers' Understanding of Evidential Requirements through Prosecutor Instruction
Prosecutors report that the evidential usefulness of child witness statements about abuse is often limited by unnecessary interview content and excessive length. Prior research indicates that this ...
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Child Witness Investigative Interviews: An Analysis of the Use of Children's Video-Recorded Evidence in North Yorkshire
Since the 1992 onset in England and Wales of video-recorded investigative interviews with children for possible use in criminal proceedings, there have been claims that far too many such interviews...
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Prosecutors’ perspectives on using recorded child witness interviews about abuse as evidence-in-chief
Over the past two decades, numerous English-speaking countries have implemented legislative reform to allow children’s investigative interviews about abuse to be electronically recorded and made av...
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An Examination of the Prevalence of Temporally Leading Questions in Child Witness Interviews
Leading questions are generally defined as those that raise details not provided by the witness. Leading questions can raise content details (eg, actions, objects, persons) or can refer to the time...
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‘[Expletive], that was confusing, wasn’t it?’ Defence lawyers’ and intermediaries’ assessment of the language used to question a child witness
While language specialists and legal professionals have voiced concerns about the language used to question child witnesses in the Aotearoa/NZ courts, it is unclear whether both groups share a comm...
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The child in the witness box
The importance of child evidence in criminal trials, particularly for child sexual assault, is widely recognised. Legal rules and “common knowledge” treat child eviden...
- Book Review: Children as Witnesses, Helen Dent and Rhona Flin, John Wiley and Sons (1992) 25 pp, $74.95 (hard cover); The Child Witness: Legal Issues and Dilemmas, Nancy Walker Perry and Lawrence S Wrightsman, Sage Publications (1991) 289 pp, $38.95 (paper)
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The Case in Australia for Further Reform to the Cross-Examination and Court Management of Child Witnesses
Recent legislative reforms in Australia designed to address the difficulties attending the reception and treatment of child evidence will have little, if any, success because they do not address th...... ... , if any, success because they do not address the reasons for the difficulties,nor introduce improvements to existing practice for the child witness, counselor court.Keywords Child witnesses; Cross-examination; Difficulties with; Failure oflegislative reform; Case for intermediariest is trite to ... ...
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Interviewing Child Witnesses: Past and Future
Much of the improvement in child witness interviewing in England and Wales has been based on the findings of psychological research concerning memory and language. However, relatively little resear...... ... authority in relation to the child’ (p. 16) ... While this recommendation may well make ... Much of the improvement in child witness inter- ... sense from a psychological and professional ... viewing in England and Wales has been based on ... point of view, there was at the ... ...
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Registered intermediaries’ assessment of children’s communication: An exploration of aims and processes
Following the implementation of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 for England and Wales, Registered Intermediaries have been available to assist child witness communication in legal ...... ... , Registered Intermediaries have been available to assist child witness communica- ... ...
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