{"id":226,"date":"2005-09-02T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T09:10:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-02T09:10:16","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T09:10:16","slug":"victim-impact-statements-proposals-victims-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Victim Impact Statements \u2013 proposals, Victims&#8217; Advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is considering whether or not relatives of murder or manslaughter victims should have the opportunity to make a personal statement in court before sentence to explain how the death affected their family. Relatives could address the court in person or through a lawyer or other representative &#8211; a victim&#8217;s advocate. The proposals do not extend to other crimes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f0f0f0\">News item <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/vote_2005\/frontpage\/4485101.stm\">here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is considering whether or not relatives of murder or manslaughter victims should have the opportunity to make a personal statement in court before sentence to explain how the death affected their family. Relatives could address the court in person or through a lawyer or other representative &#8211; a victim&#8217;s advocate. The proposals do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}