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 ...

Rape survivors’ counselling notes will no longer be admissible as evidence in criminal trials from early next year. Minister for Justice Helen McEntee, said she wants the situation where the notes ...

For victims of sexual violence, counselling is an understandably important part of the recovery process, and a fundamental feature of any counselling process is confidentiality. Despite the importance ...