Requests to access victims' personal records can only be granted when necessary and proportionate, under new guidance.
Under the new rules, police requests for counselling notes must be necessary, proportionate, and relevant – as set out in a new Victim Information Request Code of Practice. Requests for counselling ...
Victims to be given more privacy with new rules blocking police from requesting counselling notes during investigations ...
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Plans for outright ban on use of counselling notes in rape trials likely to be rolled back
A COMMITMENT BY the previous government to ban outright the use of rape survivors’ counselling notes as evidence in trials is ...
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Psychologists raise alarm over use of victims’ counselling notes in sexual assault trials
More than 100 psychologists are to hear concerns about the amount of information being disclosed to defence teams in sex offence trials from victims' counselling notes. The event taking place on ...
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