Child witnesses 1 Child witnesses in certain solemn cases (1) The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 is amended as follows. (2) After section 271B, insert— 10 “271BZA Child witnesses in certain solemn cases: special measures (1) This section applies where a child witness, other than the accused, is to give evidence at, or for the purposes of, a hearing in relevant criminal proceedings which are— (a) solemn proceedings, and 15 (b) in respect of an offence listed in subsection (2). (2) The offences are— (a) murder, (b) culpable homicide, (c) assault to the danger of life, 20 (d) abduction, (e) plagium, (f) a sexual offence to which section 288C applies, (fa) an offence under section 1(1) of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018, 25 (fb) an offence that is aggravated as described in section 1(1)(a) of the Abusive Behaviour...