Victim's Charter
(Version: 1999 currently being updated)
Download entire Victims Charter here
The "Victims Charter and Guide to the Criminal Justice System" provides a written framework of rights and entitlements against which crime victims can measure the standard of treatment received in their dealings across all sections of the criminal justice system.
The Charter sets out, from the victim’s perspective in relation to each of the services of the criminal justice system:
- a description of the role of the service,
- a statement of what you can expect from the service, and
- what you can do if these expectations are not met.
A guiding principle of the Victims’ Charter is a commitment to giving victims of crime a central place in the criminal justice system.
The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform asked the Commission for the Support of Victims of Crime to undertake a comprehensive review of the ongoing effectiveness of the Charter. This review is now being progressed as part of the Commission’s work programme.
A first charter was published in 1997, with the current significantly expanded version being published in 1999.
Links to the individual chapters of the Charter follow:
