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 Oxfam GB, has acted as co-chair of the Women’s Budget Group, and supported homeless and vulnerably housed people on their own social justice projects.

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