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25 March 2016

Justice flawed for kids, disabled: inquiry

A "one size fits all" approach to cross-examining child sex abuse victims can make their evidence seem unreliable in criminal trials, an inquiry has been told.
The director of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute, Terese Henning, told the sex abuse royal commission on Wednesday legal requirements of the rules of evidence could impose barriers for child witnesses, including those with disabilities, and mean they are stereotyped as unreliable.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31166553/nsw-prosecutor-returns-to-abuse-inquiry/