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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 ⬇️
‘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.’