Abstract

This paper analyses the current use of the Gesell Dome in the Spanish legal system. The aim of this new legal tool is laudable: to reduce the effects of secondary victimization. Nevertheless, this new method of taking particularly vulnerable victims´ statements has raised doubts about how, when, with what victims and with which crimes it is possible the pre-constitution of this evidence. The recent Organic Law 8/2021, June 4th, of comprehensive protection of children and adolescents against violence, has modified the Spanish Criminal Procedural Law. The aim of this legal reform is adapting these situations to the prerequisites established by the Spanish Supreme Court, to ensure a fair balance between the victims’ protection and the safeguarding of the defendant’s procedural rights.