{"id":464754,"date":"2025-10-01T03:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/464754\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:40:13","slug":"counselling-notes-are-used-to-undermine-victims-hazel-behan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/464754\/","title":{"rendered":"Counselling Notes Are Used To Undermine Victims &#8211; Hazel Behan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 30 September 2025 16:24\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68dbf61ae17ce.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            A bill put forward by TD Ruth Coppinger aimed at banning the practice has started.\n        <\/p>\n<p>TDs and senators are hearing from those calling for the use of counselling notes in sexual assault and gender-based violence trials to be banned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Oireachtas Justice Committee has begun scrutinising a bill, tabled by TD Ruth Coppinger, to outlaw the practice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among those addressing the committee this evening are the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the charity One in Four.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rape survivor and campaigner, Mullingar&#8217;s Hazel Behan also had this to say:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 30 September 2025 16:24 A bill put forward by TD Ruth Coppinger aimed at banning the practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[9455,16786,105,16790,16787,3611,16785,218,16783,16784,12,16788,9440,16,15,16789],"class_list":{"0":"post-464754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-irish-news","12":"tag-laois","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-local-radio","15":"tag-mental-health","16":"tag-midlands","17":"tag-midlands-103","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-offaly","20":"tag-radio","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-westmeath"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115296837712725249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}