Noeline Blackwell
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
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When you go into a health situation, you're not only talking about what's currently bothering you, you're talking about your health history.
The same is true for therapy.
So it is a real problem and it's used to weaponise court cases, to weaponise the victim, as well as to be used for genuine cases of abuse.
ensuring that there's a fair trial.
So that's why it's going to be reduced.
It should only be the relevant portions, but once a therapist or a client hands them over, once the victim hands them over to the prosecution, be that to the guard or more often actually to the DPP, but either way, once the therapist hands them over, they are then in the hands of the DPP or the guard, and the guard and the DPP will make it quite clear
to therapists, to victims, to victims' advocates, that they have no say over what is or isn't redacted.
They will be reduced.
Things will be crossed out.
But things will be left in as well.
That could be used... You know, because the defendant nearly always knows the accused in sexual offence cases, there could be things that the DPP don't know are private to the victim.
And so they could hand over things that are, but they have complete control over them once they're handed over.
At this stage of the law, the new law needs to come in really fast.
Yeah, so that's why the current... I would first of all say that it is absolutely important to realise that this only happens in sexual offence cases and therefore it is largely a question that victims in sexual offence cases traditionally have not been believed, they also traditionally have been women.
So I would say that it is not necessary in other types of trials to bring in these health notes.
But secondly, the Minister for Justice is saying that he has taken legal advice and that it is required to maintain a certain level of it for a fair trial for the defendant.
And everyone wants the accused to get a fair trial, including the victim.
They want to get a fair hearing.
They want the defendant to get a fair trial.
So what is going to happen in the future is the decision, there will be no question of the defendant seeing anything
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