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The court may consider some witnesses to be particularly vulnerable if the quality of their evidence will be affected by a mental disorder or by the fear or distress relating to giving their evidence. Mental disorder can mean a mental illness or learning disability. Fear or distress can be caused by a number of different things.

If you think that you may be a vulnerable witness, you should discuss this with the person citing you (the procurator fiscal, the children’s reporter or a lawyer in the case).

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