JII 2020 Masterclass by iBIC

iBIC offers the skills and expertise of international academic and professional experts to improve professional standards and practices in the questioning of children, vulnerable witnesses, investigative interview systems and the operational effectiveness of those systems.The iBIC Mission is to ensure, by training and education, that the secondary victimisation of child (and vulnerable) victims and witnesses, by repeated questioning in court and other proceedings, ceases.  iBIC's Vision is to teach, train, promote and perpetuate effective operational methods of question type formation and analysis to elicit free narrative recall in all legal, business, organisational and other contexts. Truth and accuracy are goals worth achieving.

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The Scottish NICHD Protocol for conducting JIIs is currently being piloted. iBIC explains what you need to know about JIIs .

Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh EH21 6UU

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John Halley, Advocate, and Dr Ann Clark of QMU are contributors to the development and teaching of the Scottish NICHD Protocol Technique for JIIs. iBIC's expert contributors will help to prepare practitioners for what they need to know about JIIs for courts, children's hearings, child protection and other professional practice. This conference is intended for those working with JIIs in any professional capacity.Important JII Developments"...subjecting children to the traditional adversarial form of examination and cross-examination at court is no longer acceptable; is unlikely to elicit the best quality of evidence and has the potential to cause further distress" Lady Dorrian, Lord Justice Clerk, 18 November 2019, Opening Specialised Evidence and Hearings Suite, Glasgow. The Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2019These Regulations bring into force on 20 January 2020 sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10(1) to (3) of the Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”).Section 1 of the Act introduces a new rule in favour of pre-recording the evidence of child witnesses other than the accused in solemn proceedings (subject to specific exceptions), where the alleged offence is listed in new section 271BZA(2) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (inserted by section 1). Under regulation 2 and the schedule of these regulations, section 1 will come into force only for the purpose of proceedings in the High Court of Justiciary. Under regulation 3, section 1 will apply for this purpose only in cases where the accused first appears on petition on or after 20 January 2020. In a small number of cases the accused never appears on petition, and in this situation section 1 will apply where the indictment is served on or after 20 October 2020. Under regulation 4(2), the same transitional arrangements will apply to section 5(6) of the Act, which alters the way in which the age of a witness is calculated where this is relevant to a decision on authorising the taking of evidence by commissioner. However, commencement of section 5(6) is not restricted to the High Court.Section 4 of the Act restricts the ability of the court to alter on review an order providing for all of a witness’s evidence to be pre-recorded, even where the case does not fall within the new rule. This will commence for reviews on or after 20 January 2020, but in High Court proceedings only.Section 5(2) and (3) of the Act, which relate to a new requirement to fix a ground rules hearing in all cases where evidence is to be taken by commissioner, will apply only in cases where the commissioner is appointed by the court on or after 20 January 2020 (see regulation 4(1)).

Joint Investigative Interviews with Children in Scotland: What Professionals Need to KnowiBIC MasterclassQueen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 24 January 2020Agenda9.00	Coffee and registration9.15	Introduction – Update:- A Positive Future for Child Forensic Interviews in Scotland – Professor Michael Lamb (remote)9.30	The essentials of the New Scottish NICHD Protocol – John Halley, Advocate10.00	JIIs – An Expert Perspective on the Current Standard of Interviews in Scottish Court Proceedings – Olivia Gomes Bell, Independent Registered Forensic Psychologist10.30	Coffee break11.00 	Why a structured protocol should be used for children’s evidence: Dr Carlos Peixoto, Forensic Psychologist12.00	Discussion and questions12.30	Lunch	1.30 	Supporting Speech, Language and Communication Needs in the Scottish NICHD Protocol – Dr Ann Clark2.30	Making the NICHD Protocol operational in courts: What lawyers need to know to fulfill their own responsibilities – John Halley3.30			Coffee break4.00			Cases and examples4.30			Discussion and questions 5.00			End

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