Witness projects
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NSPCC
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Nuffield
Foundation |
Measuring up? Evaluating implementation of government
commitments to young witnesses. Results of a national survey of 182
young witnesses called to give evidence in criminal trials in England,
Wales and Northern Ireland. |
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Ministry of Justice(Formerly
the Department for Constitutional Affairs)
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Evaluating and costing the services to
young witnesses provided by six support schemes, with a view to
identifying the core features of a service to be provided nationwide
(2006)
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Evaluating in six pathfinder areas the use of intermediaries to assist
vulnerable witnesses to communicate with the court when giving evidence
(2006) |
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Home Office |
Evaluation and testing of the leaflet
Giving a witness statement to the police – what happens next? (2003) |
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Membership of the team which produced
Achieving Best Evidence in Criminal Proceedings (2002) |
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"Options for improved support for victims
and other witnesses attending magistrates’ courts" (1997) |
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of child witness preparation for court
(1995) |
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NSPCC –
Victim Support
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"In their own words: The experiences of 50 young
witnesses in criminal proceedings" (2005) |
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NSPCC
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Coordinators of the video/DVD
‘Giving Evidence: what’s it really like?’ to assist young witnesses to
give evidence (2000, to order from the NSPCC click
here) |
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Coordinators of the Young Witness Pack used in preparing
children and young witnesses to give evidence (1998) |
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pack
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Coordinators of the training video ‘A Case
for Balance’, demonstrating good practice to judges and lawyers when
children give evidence (1997, to order from the NSPCC click
here) |
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General Council
of the Bar |
Specification of the video to 'A Case for
Special Measures' to raise the awareness of lawyers and judges about the
needs and treatment of vulnerable witnesses (2002, to order click
here) |
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Victim Support |
"Children in Court" (1996) |
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Department of
Health |
A study of the pace of child abuse prosecutions since the Criminal
Justice Act 1991 (1995) |
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Trials Issues Group |
Development of a framework protocol relating to the exchange of
information between agencies in matters involving intimidated or vulnerable witnesses
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Scottish
Office (now
the Scottish
Executive) |
Research support to
the Lord Advocate’s Working Group on Child Witness Support (1998) |
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Nuffield
Foundation |
A comparison of the pace of child abuse prosecutions before and after
implementation of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (1993) |
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