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Let’s adopt US model to help crime victims

THE Brian Murphy trial has again raised the issue of rights for victims of crime.

Let’s adopt US model to help crime victims

Sat, 20 Mar, 2004 - 00:00

Our justice system seems to treat victims as objects, akin to damaged property, rather than as human beings.

Some argue that we should scrap our British adversarial system in favour of the French inquisitorial system.

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