1.Introduction&JR Spencer 1
2.‘Kicking and Screaming’—the Slow Road to Best Evidence&Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson 21
3.Alternative Routes： Accusatorial Jurisdictions on the Slow Road to Best Evidence&Emily Henderson 43
4.Children’s Evidence in Legal Proceedings—the Position in Western Australia&Hal Jackson 75
5.Cross-Examining the Child Complainant： Rights, Innovations and Unfounded Fears in the Australian Context&Annie Cossins 95
6.An Idea Whose Time has Come： The Reform of Criminal Procedure for Child Witnesses in New Zealand&Emily Henderson 113
7.Child Witnesses in Austria&Verena Murschetz 131
8.The Position in Norway&Trond Myklebust 147
9.Conclusions&JR Spencer 171
10.The Pigot Report 1989 (reprinted) 203
Index 283