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This page last updated
Jan 31 2005
2004-0130 - NZ Herald - Handling
sexual abuse
by
John Anderson - Catriona MacLennan on your Perspectives page [NZ Herald, 27 Jan
04] claimed there was unanimity at a forum about the prosecution of sexual
offences. I was there and that was not my recollection. Some of her points
were :
2004-0127 - NZ Herald - Time to
improve a bruising process
by Catriona MacLennan - New Zealand's sexual-offence criminal trial process
is a bruising one in which victims are typically left feeling humiliated and
powerless. Where consent is at issue, the conviction rate is extremely low,
resulting in a lack of confidence in the system. Now is the time to consider
how the process could be improved. The public issues committee of the
Auckland District Law Society, in a June 2002 report, called for a review of
the procedures for the trial of those accused of rape and other sexual
offences.
2002-0620 - Auckland District Law
Society - Sexual Crimes: Trial Process Needs Review
new Jan 31 2005
by Frances Joychild and Katherine Anderson - The Public Issues Committee
of the Auckland District Law Society calls for a review of the procedures by
which rape and other sexual offences are tried in the criminal justice
system. Despite there being many positive reforms of the rape law in the past
20 years it is evident that there is still a substantial degree of
under-reporting of sexual crimes. For example, Rape Crisis Centre reports
that less than a third of the people who contact it have reported the sexual
crime to the police
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