Briefing: Section 28 Pre-Recorded Evidence
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This document sets out proposals for an amendment to the Courts and Tribunals Bill for an automatic right to provide pre-recorded video evidence.
It details calls by the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, Claire Waxman OBE, for certain vulnerable victims to have a legal entitlement to access Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, which allows a victim to pre-record their evidence.