Advocate says victims asked to consent to 'excessive' personal data being handed over during trials.
Rape victims are being forced to choose between healthcare and justice, Northern Ireland's victims of crime commissioner has said.
Ms Hanna said she was concerned that this was putting some victims off accessing "crucial therapeutic support" and was causing those who avail of support to "censor what they say for fear of how it may be used against them".
She said disclosing excessive amounts of data which can then be used in court by the defence, has the "triple effect of retraumatising victims, making some victims reluctant to access crucial counselling services, or resulting in victims censoring their accounts of their experience to their counsellors in the knowledge that it may be used in court"."For crimes which are already underreported and have lower prosecution rates, this is even more concerning," she added.
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