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May 1, 2019 31 tweets 15 min read
Tonight we are in Glasgow with @missmjustice, @SarahJustRight & Simon Di Rollo QC to talk about civil damages cases for rape ⚖️.

Follow #insearchofjustice to follow the event ⬇️ Sandy, Miss M and Sarah face away from camera wearing t-shirts that with an illustration that reads ‘no means no’ ‘The purpose of both these cases was not to do with getting sums of money, it was to do with getting a civil court to make a finding, that somebody had been raped.’ - Simon Di Rollo QC sets out the motivations for pursuing civil cases. #insearchofjustice
Apr 18, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
⚖️'If I'm not a good enough witness, then who the hell is?'

This @guardian podcast lays bare the shocking extent to which the justice system in England & Wales is currently failing rape survivors
theguardian.com/news/audio/201… ‘The real justice gap here is the fact that thousands and thousands of victims are going to the police and their cases...are not being taken forward.’