Reforms to witness statements (PD 57AC): sense, finally, after a century of psychological research; or, a triumph of form over substance? | Allen & Overy LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In 1995, Elizabeth Loftus and Jacqueline Pickerell published a paper showing that it was possible to implant an entire false memory of something that never happened. In one of the first successful cases of memory implantation, the subject was supplied with three true events that happened in his childhood and one false one: that he had been lost in a mall as a child. The subject came to believe he had in fact been lost in the mall. The Witness Evidence Working Group was born, in Spring 2018, out of a concern on the part of the judges...