Letters: Rape Crisis Centre shares concerns raised over the use of counselling notes during court cases

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Letters to the Editor

In her incisive article (Irish Independent, May 23), Ellen Coyne voices her concern that a victim’s counselling notes can be used in a rape trial and that this could deter them from seeking therapeutic support or even seeking justice at all. I share these concerns, which have long been raised by Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

We see first-hand the impact that the requirement to share our clients’ counselling notes has on victims of sexual violence and on our therapists.