This article examines the impacts of giving pre-recorded evidence on complainants in family violence matters in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The use of pre-recorded evidence in the ACT was enabled in 2015 by the Crimes (Domestic and Family Violence) Legislation Amendment Act, which aimed to protect family violence complainants from being further traumatised by this element of the criminal justice process. The author examines this legislation in light of the effects of trauma on short-term memory and concludes the requirement that pre-recorded evidence be given ‘as soon as practicable’ after a family violence incident may be doing complainants more harm than good.

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预先记录的证据的危险：尽快？

本文探讨了在澳大利亚首都地区 (ACT) 的家庭暴力事件中，提供预先记录的证据对投诉人的影响。2015 年，《犯罪（家庭暴力和家庭暴力）立法修正案》允许在 ACT 中使用预先记录的证据，该法案旨在保护家庭暴力投诉人免受刑事司法程序这一要素的进一步创伤。作者根据创伤对短期记忆的影响审查了这项立法，并得出结论，要求在家庭暴力事件发生后“尽快”提供预先记录的证据可能对申诉人造成的伤害大于好处。