What is a Forensic Hypnotist or Hypno-Investigator?
Is an investigator who is trained in investigation techniques and hypnosis or hypnotherapy and utilizes these skills as to gather facts, information or evidence pertaining to, or that may be, or later become the subject of legal proceedings, prosecution, civil process, internal disciplinary procedure or ethics inquiry. What is the court’s view of hypnotically refreshed recall? Hypnosis and other techniques or modalities which are considered to be hypnotic are governed by a definitive set of rules or protocols that the court will consider before such evidence is admitted into Court. The use of hypnosis to enhance memory is reflected in R v Jenkyns (1993) 32 NSWLR 712 and in R v Tillott (1995) 38 NSWLR 1, in the latter the Court of Criminal Appeal considered that hypnosis and associated techniques could present risks of suggestibility, confabulation, pseudo memory, an unjustified increase in witness confidence, and possible falsity. The Court has laid down a specific set of rules that sh
