Witness Familiarisation

Practising the dark arts? The US approach to witness preparation

Part 1 of a series that compares the practice and ethical rules of witness preparation that apply in different jurisdictions.

Confronting the ethics of witness familiarisation: the elephant in the room

Ethics of preparing witnesses, free training workshop for litigation lawyers

Empowering Witnesses to Break the Sound Barrier

On 14 October 2012, Austrian thrill seeker Felix Baumgarter took a supersonic leap from a balloon suspended nearly 39 kms above Earth,...

Child Witnesses – Developing Evidence-Gathering Techniques

In The Fascinating Science of Child Witnesses, Newroom journalist Eloise Gibson reports on recent studies into child witnesses and the...

The Hubristic Witness: A Cautionary Litigation Tale

When you intend to call successful, confident, business people as witnesses, it is easy to get lulled into a false sense of security and...

A New Era of Witness Performance

The May 2016 edition of NZ Lawyer magazine (issue 8.02) featured an article on witness familiarisation and included quotes from Nikki...

Challenges Facing Young Witnesses in Roast Buster Cases

On 30 October 2014, Legal Empowerment director, Nikki Pender, spoke to RNZ’s Nine to Noon about the challenges that would have...