Making room: Facilitating the testimony of child witnesses and victims

• 1. Verfasser: Authors: Commissioned by the Centre for Child Law, University of Pretoria (auth)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) 2015
• Schlagworte: child victims testify children intermediaries child witness
• Online-Zugang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

About the publication Court rooms are frightening places for anyone testifying. Even adults are fearful about giving evidence in front of magistrates and judges, and about being questioned by prosecutors and defence lawyers. Imagine how much more scary that must be for a child. Even worse, in sexual...