Re P.B. (A Minor)
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1986 |
| Date | 01 January 1986 |
| Court | Family Division (Northern Ireland) |
- Wardship hearing - Interview of five year old child - Whether evidence of interviewer and video tape of interview admissible.
A four year old child was made a ward of court by the Northern Health and Social Services Board, which requested that care and control of the child should be given to the Board and not to the respondent, the child's mother. The Board's contention was that the child have been sexually abused by an adult male or by adult males in the child's extended family, and that the child would be in physical and moral danger if permitted to reside with the respondent. The child had been interviewed by a doctor and the interview had been video recorded. The Board intended to rely at the hearing on the evidence of the doctor and on the video recording to prove what the child had said and done during the interview. The respondent objected to such evidence being given by the doctor and to the video recording being shown on the ground that it offended against the hearsay rule and therefore was not admissible. Held, in a preliminary ruling, that, although evidence by the doctor of what the child said during the interview offended...
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