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Changing the laws surrounding
rape trials will be the focus of this year's Rape Awareness week. In launching its
campaign today, Rape Crisis and Auckland Sexual Abuse Help want to make the
judicial system more tolerable for victims of rape. Rape Crisis spokeswoman
Kim McGregor says the whole system needs an overhaul. She believes a
taskforce should be formed to review the process by which sexual crimes are
tried. The group is working with lawyers to put together a proposal for the
government to consider. Dr McGregor says
yesterday's protest march up Queen Street in Auckland in honour of Louise
Nicholas went a long way in raising awareness of the problems rape
complainants face. Hundreds of protestors
took to the streets in support of Ms Nicholas, who took Assistant Police
Commissioner Clint Rickards and former police officers Brad Shipton and Bob
Schollum to the High Court in Auckland last month, alleging they raped her in
Rotorua in the 1980s. The men were found not guilty.
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