Counselling notes of sexual assault victims are only used “to discredit victims” in court, the CEO of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre said today. Ms Noeline Blackwell noted that counselling notes are ...

Survivors of rape and sexual assault will no longer have to give police access to their counselling notes except in special circumstances, under a new code of practice that came into force on Monday.

The founder of an advocacy group for therapists has said that victims of sexual assault are being retraumatised by having their counselling notes read out to them in court. Bairbre Kelly, of ...

“Therapy is supposed to be an unbiased, safe space. How is it anyone else’s business how someone deals with the aftermath of an assault?” asks survivor Hazel Behan. “How is it constitutional to hand ...

Jackman called himself a ‘feminist’ . Under Section 52B of the Victorian Crimes Act, it is an offence for any therapist to ...