Part of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - Report (5th Day) – in the House of Lords at 4:15 pm on 12 January 2022.
Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
4:15,
12 January 2022
I was saying absolutely the opposite and, if it came out wrong, it came out wrong. The whole point of restorative justice is that the offender and the victim have to consent. That is the point which I was making about crimes of sexual violence. The victim there should not feel under any compulsion or pressure to engage in restorative justice if they do not want to. Victim choice and free-will participation is at the heart of restorative justice. I hope that I have made that very clear.
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