Submitted on Wednesday 25th April 2018
Rejected on Monday 9th July 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop access to counselling notes, by the defence, in sexual assault cases.
Approximately 85,000 women and 12,000 men are raped or sexually assaulted in England and Wales each year; that works out at roughly 11 assaults (of adults alone) every hour.
This petition is to stop access to victims' private counselling notes, by the defence, in rape and sexual assault cases.
Only 15% of sexual violence is reported to the police and approximately 90% of those who are raped know the perpetrator prior to the offence.
A victim of a crime of this nature should be able to speak emotionally and freely in a safe space, with a counselor, without being worried about potential repercussions in court.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/223132
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