Clare Cochrane

Clare Cochrane is the Dissemination Manager at the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law, and a community empowerment trainer and facilitator. Previously she has worked on UK poverty issues for Oxfa

An inconsistent story doesn't mean you're lying: on psychology and the asylum process

Psychological research shows that honest people, particularly when traumatised, will remember events inconsistently. Judges in asylum cases need to listen to the best scientific evidence on human behaviour, not just their 'common sense'.

By Clare Cochrane

/ 22 Jul 2014