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Let’s have Justice for Sexual Violence
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, a government set up a Taskforce for Action on Sexual Violence. They had been shaken by public outrage at not guilty verdicts for rape of Louise Nicholas by...
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Sexual violence and the Justice system: Abject Fail
The Law Commission proposals for alternative trial processes for sexual violence sit in a context of the abject failure of the justice system. While communities and survivors in particular have...
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Guest Post: Give survivors a fighting chance
Many thanks to Jennifer Annan, Auckland Sexual Abuse Help Court Support Counsellor for this post. Thanks also to everyone at ASAH for making their expertise in supporting survivors through the justice...
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Guest Post: Reforms needed for Real Justice
Many thanks to Elisabeth McDonald, Associate Professor of Law at Victoria University, co-author and co-editor of “From ‘Real Rape’ to Real Justice” for this post. Elisabeth teaches and researches in...
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National Rape Crisis and the Law Commission
Many thanks to Georgia Knowles, National Co-ordinator of Nga Whitiki Whanau Ahuru Mowai O Aotearoa/National Collective of Rape Crisis and Related Groups of Aotearoa for this post. National Rape Crisis...
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Cheat Sheet: What the Law Commission says….
If we accept that the criminal justice system doesn’t work for survivors of sexual violence now, and that the current Law Commission recommendations are a wonderful opportunity to make the system...
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Summing it up for the Law Commission
We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to ask for a criminal justice system which is fairer, more effective and less traumatising for survivors of sexual violence. But I’m aware many people who want...
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This report card is incomplete – must do better
Minister of Women’s Affairs Jo Goodhew has been giving a “report card” over the last few days to the United Nations on how well women in New Zealand are doing. This is the Convention on the...
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Terrible news for rape surviors
We finally have an answer to the many years work that have gone into trying to change our justice system’s response to sexual violence so that it feels less retraumatising for survivors. Justice...
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Reading reports helps sometimes
More on Judith Collins and the alternative trial processes for sexual violence. In parliament today Minister Collins explained she didn’t want to have different processes for sexual violence cases...
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