Counselling notes of sexual assault victims are only used “to discredit victims” in court, the CEO of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre said today. Ms Noeline Blackwell noted that counselling notes are ...

Survivors of rape and sexual assault will no longer have to give police access to their counselling notes except in special circumstances, under a new code of practice that came into force on Monday.

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Sexual violence causes profound trauma and many victims seek counselling and support in its wake. Access to counselling is crucial to promote recovery for victim-survivors.

The Supreme Court’s own reasoning is that the notes at the centre of this most prominent recent disclosure case turned out to ...

The founder of an advocacy group for therapists has said that victims of sexual assault are being retraumatised by having their counselling notes read out to them in court. Bairbre Kelly, of ...

“Therapy is supposed to be an unbiased, safe space. How is it anyone else’s business how someone deals with the aftermath of an assault?” asks survivor Hazel Behan. “How is it constitutional to hand ...

Survivors of sexual offences will call on the Irish Government to ban outright the use of counselling notes in sexual offence trials, at a session of the United Nations on Monday. Ciara Mangan and ...