| AdminHistory | The report was written by a British Psychological Society Working Party with set out to provide a plain english 'scientifically accurate basis from which to consider issues relating to memory' guide for those working in legal settings. The report did not specifically consider 'recovered memories' which had been addressed in a previous report of 1995. The guidance was proposed by Martin Conway to the BPS Research Board August and November 2006
The working party met between March 2007 and January 2008, it was chaired by Martin Conway and comprised C Brown, S J Brown, J A Ellis, R Holliday, Emily A Holmes, A Madill, C J A Moulin, D G Pearson, Daryl B O'Connor, Vivian Robinson (QC), Martin Shorrock (QC), D B Wright and Sarah C Wright (QC). Members of the group took responsibility for different areas e.g. children and false memories, the elderly, identification parades, source errors, spatial memory, impact of stress on memory, trauma, popular misconceptions, autobiographical memory.
The final document was launched at the Law Society on 11 July 2008. It was revised in 2010.
Proposals to further revise the guidance in 2011 and 2013 were not successful however following an exploratory meeting on 18 March 2018 a 'Task and Finish Group on Memory Based Evidence' was proposed with the first formal meeting on 20 May 2019 with a projected schedule to publish new guidelines in Spring 2020. However when the Group reported to the Research Board in October 2020 that they had not been able to reach a concensus and that the Chair of the T&F Group had stepped down it was decided that the Memory Based Evidence Group should be disbanded.
See also British Psychological Society 'Psychologists as Expert Witnesses Guidelines and Procedures for England and Wales' 1998, 1999, 2007, 2009 2010, 2015, 2017, 2021
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