A new FASD toolkit for the Advocate’s Gateway (TAG).
The Advocate’s Gateway (TAG) provides free access to practical, evidence-based guidance on communicating with vulnerable witnesses and defendants. TAG’s main aims are to promote the maintenance of the highest ethical and professional standards in the questioning of people who are vulnerable in justice settings and to provide practitioners with evidence-based guidance and support in the form of toolkits. TAG’s toolkits have been widely endorsed by senior judges and by professional bodies and are the ‘go to’ resource for lawyers dealing with vulnerable witnesses.
Our hope is that this new Toolkit will help educate lawyers on FASD in the justice system and lead to higher quality legal representation of individuals with FASD in the justice system which will in turn lead to fewer miscarriages of justice.