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 ...
Survivors, therapists and campaigners have called for an all-out ban on the use of therapy notes in sexual abuse trials.
Victims to be given more privacy with new rules blocking police from requesting counselling notes during investigations ...
Journal.ie on MSN
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 ...
Irish Mirror on MSNOpinion
Survivors call on government to ban victims’ counselling notes from being used in sexual violence trials
A proposed amendment to the Criminal Law and Civil Law Bill 2025 by Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan retains the possibility ...
Jim O’Callaghan introduces omnibus Bill banning ‘sex for rent’, allowing prison officers use pepper spray and regulating outdoor seating ...
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