Sexual Assault Trials Handbook — Investigation and interviewing children in child sexual abuse cases

J Goodman-Delahunty, M Nolan and E van Gijn Grosvenor, Empirical guidance on the effects of child sexual abuse on memory and complainants’ evidence, Report for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, 2017.

This paper discusses best-practice features of interviews to enhance memory, including eliciting a full account of events, the use of multiple interviews, eliciting reliable information, interview aids, and accommodating individual differences. Useful discussions are found in the report on pp 60–62, 63–75, 88–95 and 136–138.