Add to ORKGThe Act amends a section of the Code pertaining to the competency of child witnesses to testify. Before this change, a child\u27s competency as a witness could be challenged by either party in court. Upon such challenge, the court was obligated to examine the child to determine her ability to understand the nature and ramifications of her testimony. The Act declares that children ages fourteen and under who were or may have been the victims or witnesses of child molestation or other crimes are automatically competent to testify
The Children’s Law Center designed this information packet for lawyers, child protection workers, an...
Modern-day research studies conducted on the victimisation of children in South Africa show that Sou...
Professor Gershman\u27s Article notes that courts and lawmakers have changed procedural and evidenti...
The Act amends the child hearsay statute to allow adults to testify in court regarding a child’s des...
The Act provides that a child victim of rape, sodomy, child molestation, cruelty to children, or sex...
The Act allows a court to order a child witness or victim of certain offenses under the age of seven...
The Act expands the scope of the parties’ right to take depositions of witnesses in criminal matters...
The Act adds an exception to the hearsay rule to allow testimony of a third party concerning stateme...
The judicial system is struggling to accommodate the special needs of a rapidly growing number of ch...
This Article discusses the testimony of young children, the inadequacy of the traditional hearing us...
The papers in this symposium were originally prepared for the Section on Evidence of the 2007 Annual...
The purpose of this study is to explain the concept of a child witness according to the criminal evi...
The Act amends the provisions of the Code which prohibited the compulsion of testimony from one spou...
The Act provides a qualified privilege against compelled disclosure of information for those who gat...
Part 1 appeared in UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND LAW JOURNAL 22 (2) 2003 : 199-223 (AGIS 04/2890) - judic...
The Children’s Law Center designed this information packet for lawyers, child protection workers, an...
Modern-day research studies conducted on the victimisation of children in South Africa show that Sou...
Professor Gershman\u27s Article notes that courts and lawmakers have changed procedural and evidenti...
The Act amends the child hearsay statute to allow adults to testify in court regarding a child’s des...
The Act provides that a child victim of rape, sodomy, child molestation, cruelty to children, or sex...
The Act allows a court to order a child witness or victim of certain offenses under the age of seven...
The Act expands the scope of the parties’ right to take depositions of witnesses in criminal matters...
The Act adds an exception to the hearsay rule to allow testimony of a third party concerning stateme...
The judicial system is struggling to accommodate the special needs of a rapidly growing number of ch...
This Article discusses the testimony of young children, the inadequacy of the traditional hearing us...
The papers in this symposium were originally prepared for the Section on Evidence of the 2007 Annual...
The purpose of this study is to explain the concept of a child witness according to the criminal evi...
The Act amends the provisions of the Code which prohibited the compulsion of testimony from one spou...
The Act provides a qualified privilege against compelled disclosure of information for those who gat...
Part 1 appeared in UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND LAW JOURNAL 22 (2) 2003 : 199-223 (AGIS 04/2890) - judic...
The Children’s Law Center designed this information packet for lawyers, child protection workers, an...
Modern-day research studies conducted on the victimisation of children in South Africa show that Sou...
Professor Gershman\u27s Article notes that courts and lawmakers have changed procedural and evidenti...