Author:
Gudjonsson Gisli H.,Gunn John
Abstract
SummaryThis paper deals with an aspect of the law relating to the use of a mentally handicapped victim as a prosecution witness in a criminal trial. Here the particular question was of the victim's competence to act as a witness, and the likely reliability, or otherwise of her evidence. The results of psychological testing were found to provide guidelines by which the court could distinguish between areas of the reliable and the unreliable in her evidence.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health
Cited by
61 articles.
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