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Introductory Text
General principles
1.General principles
Standards of service
2.Standards of service
3.Reports
Rules: review of decision not to prosecute
4.Rules: review of decision not to prosecute
Restorative justice
5.Restorative justice
Disclosure of information
6.Disclosure of information about criminal proceedings
Interviews
7.Interviews with children: guidance
8.Certain offences: victim’s right to specify gender of interviewer
Medical examinations
9.Certain medical examinations: gender of medical examiner
Vulnerable witnesses
10.Vulnerable witnesses: main definitions
11.Child and deemed vulnerable witnesses
12.Child and deemed vulnerable witnesses: standard special measures
13.Objections to special measures: child and deemed vulnerable witnesses
14.Child witnesses
15.Reporting of proceedings involving children
16.Other vulnerable witnesses: assessment and application
17.Objections to special measures: other vulnerable witnesses
18.Review of arrangements for vulnerable witnesses
19.Temporary additional special measures
20.Special measures: closed courts
21.Power to prescribe further special measures
22.Vulnerable witnesses: civil proceedings
Victim statements
23.Victim statements
Sentencing
24.Duty to consider making compensation order
25.Restitution order
26.Victim surcharge
Release of offender: victim’s rights
27.Victim’s right to receive information about release of offender etc.
28.Life prisoners: victim’s right to make oral representations before release on licence
29.Temporary release: victim’s right to make representations
National Confidential Forum
30.National Confidential Forum
31.NCF: constitution and operation
General
32.Interpretation
33.Ancillary provision
34.Commencement
35.Short title