Protection In Court Of Victims Of Crime

EDM number 41 in 1996-97, proposed by Tom Cox on 23/10/1996.

That this House deplores the failure of the Government to protect rape victims and the aged from some barristers and defendants who clearly will sink to any depth to unnerve the victims of crime to achieve the confusion of a jury; and calls for an urgent review of court procedures to include the introduction of questioning via television monitors.

This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.