https://www.theyworkforyou.com/sp/?id=2023-05-09.6.0
Trauma-informed Justice for Victims and Witnesses
– in the Scottish Parliament on 9th May 2023.
[…] One organisation, which deals almost exclusively with BAME individuals, has said that there is a lack of support for female survivors of domestic abuse to attend court. Even in cases in which it is known that someone’s first language is not English, important documents such as citation letters are sent to them only in English instead of in their mother tongue.
Another organisation, which deals with deaf clients, has told me that there is a general lack of understanding of the challenges that are faced by deaf people in the justice system. The organisation spoke to me about cases where deaf victims of assault or rape have had to wait days, or even weeks, before being able to speak to the police about what happened to them, all because of problems with finding an interpreter in time. That is just one example. […]
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