My memory is my memory. This went on until I was in my teenagehoods. Debroah Ward hasn't decided if she'll press charges. If she does, the justice system would face the same burden it did with Robert Kenward and, indeed, any case where the alleged abuse happened years ago. Somehow, out of the maze of testimony and conflicting advice, a jury has to find the truth.
Defence lawyers argue truth can only be found if they have access to a person's counselling records.
When you get a complaint that is many years old, it's all about memory. That's the central feature of the case and that can't be explored in a fair way without access to those notes and to those counselling sessions. But discovering those records can be extraordinarily difficult. Anton Maher was Robert Kenward's barrister. He believes the fundamental impediment to justice in recovered memory cases is not the clash of expert opinion, it's whether the jury finds out what it's dealing with.