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 ...
A COMMITMENT BY the previous government to ban outright the use of rape survivors’ counselling notes as evidence in trials is ...
Sex assault victims have hit out at the Government’s failure to fully ban the use of counselling notes in trials under new legislation, saying Ireland will still be in breach of international human ...