{"id":662,"date":"2008-11-21T07:59:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T06:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2008-11-21T07:59:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T06:59:27","slug":"95-of-violence-victims-do-not-seek-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"95% of violence victims do not seek compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>In a damning indictment of ministers&#8217; aim to prioritise victims of crime, it has been revealed that two thirds of victims are unaware that they were eligible for compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). <\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/forensic-full-kit-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"Forensic full kit 006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/forensic-full-kit-006-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#160; A report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee says that even where people do apply, they are hampered by a complex application form and suffer delays in receiving their money because of bureaucracy. <\/p>\n<p>It is said that since MPs&#8217; delivered a &#8220;withering verdict&#8221; eight years ago, the performance of the authority had deteriorated even further. <\/p>\n<p>The MPs&#8217; report, <i>Compensating Victims of Violent Crime<\/i>, criticises the Ministry of Justice for affording the agency a low priority despite its claims to put victims at the heart of the criminal justice system. <\/p>\n<p>Times report <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/law\/article5193140.ece\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a damning indictment of ministers&#8217; aim to prioritise victims of crime, it has been revealed that two thirds of victims are unaware that they were eligible for compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). &#160; A report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee says that even where people do apply, they are hampered [&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-662","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\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}