Memory is a very fragile thing, it can easily be altered, and details are quickly forgotten after an event occurs. In the criminal justice field memory is especially important to police officers and investigators, because they often times rely on witnesses to have the information...
This essay is going to argue that the safeguards that are in place to ensure that evidence of vulnerable witnesses defined under section 16 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (YJCEA) can be heard represent an unacceptable erosion of the adversarial tradition...
Eyewitness testimony, which depends on the precision of human recollection, has an extensive influence on the end result of a trial. Apart from a smoking gun, nothing sustains as much value with a jury as the testimony of an existing witness. The recollection of witnesses...
As defined in the American Society of Trial Consultants (ASTC, 2016) Professional Code, witness preparation is the assistance trial consultants provide to attorneys or other clients to improve witnesses’ understanding and confidence in their testimony as well as witnesses’ ability to truthfully communicate their testimony...