Citaat | Parket bij de Hoge Raad 1 november 2022

Onder 3.29 Parket bij de Hoge Raad 1 november 2022

Een alinea uit Parket bij de Hoge Raad 1 november 2022, ECLI:NL:PHR:2022:1012.

63. The Court considers that the domestic courts cannot be reproached for refusing to have E. summoned to a hearing, on the basis of expert opinions. This decision was clearly taken in the best interests of the child. Furthermore, it is not the Court’s role to place in question the opinion of the experts who found that E.’s attendance at a court hearing would cause her considerable psychological trauma and that in a stressful situation consistency of her statements could not be guaranteed. The Court considers, however, that for these very reasons it would have been essential to give the defence an opportunity to have questions put to the victim during the preliminary investigation. Moreover, as regards the possible lack of consistency in the statements of a witness, the Court considers that one of the purposes of putting questions to a witness is to test the witness testimony in order to reveal any inconsistencies – something the defence was prevented from effectively doing in the present case.

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