In 2009, Stephen Barker was convicted of rape on the evidence of a little girl who was four-
and-a-half years old at the trial, and about three-and-a-half when first interviewed by the …

Cross-examination is fundamental to the adversarial criminal trial. However, when children
and witnesses with an intellectual disability are cross-examined, it can lead to unreliable …

[A central feature of the Australian court system is the use of cross-examination as the main
means by which eyewitness evidence is tested. The ability to test evidence by cross …

Cases of historic child assault typically rely on the complainant's narrative due to lack of
corroborating evidence. Although it is important that complainants give their best evidence …

The purpose of this article is to examine some apparent lacunae in the current legal
landscape for ovtaining the best evidence from children and witnesses with cognitive …

Justice remains an esoteric concept inspite of the significant advancements in legal
literature and theory. Therefore, the process and means to reach justice are carefully …

One of the key features of the adversarial criminal trial is the giving of oral evidence by
witnesses and the testing of that evidence through cross-examination, a process considered …

The review of the literature in Chapter 8 shows that cross-examination is used, and allowed
to be used, as a method for producing inaccurate evidence that favours the defence case …

Executive Summary This Issues Paper discusses the feasibility of instituting a
communication assistant/intermediary scheme in Tasmania for people with complex …