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"Stimulating,
interactive, challenging"
Charge
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"Tremendous
impact.
I am now more knowledgeable of the issues raised"
Ward Manager |
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"Excellent,
has given information that will radically change my practice"
Criminal
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case, june 2004 |
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Trial
prompts call for witness-training guidelines
law gazette
by Jeremy Fleming,
1 July 2004 |
A
witness-training company last week called
for national guidelines to be issued
in the wake of a trial that was halted
because of prosecution allegations that
witness training was an abuse of process.
The directors of InPractice – three
of whom are lawyers with London firm
RadcliffesLeBrasseur, which owns half
the company – said the issue of
training was addressed for the first
time in court last month in R v Salisbury.
In his judgment in Chester Crown Court,
Mr Justice Pitchford said the witnesses
– who were hospital staff –
were entitled to the training that InPractice
offered, which amounted to a process
of familiarisation with court processes
and preparing to give evidence. The
trial was resumed.
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Kate
Hill, as associate at Radcliffes and
director of InPractice, said there were
grey areas that some witness-training
companies might stray beyond by attempting
to coach witnesses.She said: ‘We
think the law should be proactive rather
than reactive, that’s why we are
asking the government to issue guidelines’. |
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