Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

——with a revision of the earlier charter being carried out in 1999, which provides a written framework of entitlements against which crime victims can measure the level and standard of treatment received in their dealings across all sections of the criminal justice system. The fact New Zealand is now turning its attention to a victims' charter shows that each jurisdiction must choose its own route according to its circumstances and that legislating in this area is not necessarily the most effective or only way to proceed.

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