Families call for right to make victim statements

A GROUP representing families of homicide victims yesterday called on the Government to give them the legal right to make victim impact statements.

Families call for right to make victim statements

The call followed a judgement in the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) which threatened people with contempt of court proceedings if they deviated from victim impact statements when reading them in court.

A group representing rape victims described the threat as “reprehensible” and said the judgement was another example of the “endless slippage” in the justice system away from the victims.

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