From Bystander to Participant: Recognising and protecting victims by providing legal advice and legal representation [pdf, 664 KB]
...international scoping exercise of advocacy models in adversarial and quasi- adversarial jurisdictions; and Phase Two analysed the SVCAs scheme pilot itself, drawing on survey and interview data from 26 practitioners and 592 survivor-complainants, SVCAs case files, and police MG5 forms. Phase Two of the evaluation set out to answer three core research questions: • Is there sufficient rationale to justify the existence of legal advocacy? • How was the SVCAs scheme implemented?...