ABSTRACT
The Memorandum is part of the scheme for taking children's evidence created by the Criminal Justice Act 1991. This was a 'watered-down' version of the proposals of the Advisory Committee on Video Evidence, alias the Pigot Committee (Home Office, 1989), under which the whole of a child's evidence (including cross-examination) would have been recorded on videotape ahead of trial, and under which certain children would have been questioned by a single, neutral examiner charged with putting the questions for both prosecution and defence.
