Comment on No More Empty Docks, Offenders Forced to Face Victims

• JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  They can give evidence from behind a screen or sometimes video link.

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• Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I don’t know, but I would imagine that they can either remove the accused while they give evidence, or they can give video evidence

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  • Blake@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I have read horror stories about this happening in the US, where victims of terrible crimes can be cross-examined in a dehumanising or intimidating way by the person who harmed them if they choose to defend themselves. It’s really disgusting.

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    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It’s a tricky one, because there are cases where the accused is guilty, cases where they’re innocent, and cases where they’ve been deliberately falsely accused. Until the trial, they can’t fairly be separated, so they should have the right to defend themselves, but, as you say, this can mean that an innocent person is put through something awful by the person who hurt them in the first place.

      I’m just glad that I don’t have to write the rules around that.

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