Dear Crown Law Office,

I ask for the following information to assist me in my research of the Peter Ellis case.

According to records held by Crown Law, including information held in the minds of officials, did the Solicitor General, Una Jagose, inform the Supreme Court on 14 November 2019 that memory research “wasn’t science”? Did she subsequently qualify her statement – following expressions of surprise from the bench – to say that memory research didn’t provide the same certainty as DNA? Please provide me with a copy of her comments.

In 2018, at about how many trials involving alleged sexual offending against children was DNA evidence presented to the court?

Please supply me with the details (including titles and authors’ names) of research papers regarding child suggestibility or memory that are held by Crown Law. Please supply details of research papers regarding child suggestibility or memory which have been accessed by Crown Law since Peter Ellis’ legal counsel indicated his intention to appeal earlier this year.

Yours faithfully,

Ross Francis