A COMMITMENT BY the previous government to ban outright the use of rape survivors’ counselling notes as evidence in trials is likely to be rolled back, The Journal understands. Survivors of ...

Minister Jim O'Callaghan gave this thoughts amid ongoing calls for victims’ notes from counselling sessions not to be brought ...

CRIMINALS should have their details published online in a similar way to tax evaders, Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan has suggested. The Fianna Fail Minister has also revealed plan to next month ...

Photo: Brian Lawless A group of survivors of sexual and ­gender-based violence, who have all waived their anonymity, have called on TDs to ban the use of counselling notes and character ...

I write this piece from two perspectives — as someone with personal experience of sexual violence and whose therapy notes were requested in the legal process, and now as a clinical psychologist ...

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