Child sexual abuse, memory and complainants' evidence

20/07/2017

Reports to note

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has published a report, Empirical Guidance on the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse on Memory and Complainants’ Evidence. In a letter to the president of the Bar Association, Arthur Moses SC, the Hon Justice Peter McClellan AM, chair of the commission, predicted that the report will be relevant to judicial officers, the legal profession, expert witnesses and teachers of law. Copies can be found on the royal commission's website.