Niamh Ní Dhomhnaill: Rape survivors' counselling notes should not be weaponised

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 working in mental health.

I am one of a growing minority who have accessed an outcome through the criminal justice system. I received, perhaps in some people’s eyes, justice via a custodial sentence, albeit through waiving anonymity, public outrage, and an appeal.

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