More than 3000 people have signed a survivor-led petition to keep sexual assault counselling notes private, after an ...

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 ...

Sex assault and rape survivors are choosing to attend counselling instead of pursuing a criminal prosecution against their attacker for fear their counselling notes will be used in a trial. A survey ...

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