Learning-Disabled And The Justice System

EDM number 460 in 1997-98, proposed by Malcolm Wicks on 13/11/1997.

That this House believes that many learning-disabled victims of crime are denied a fair hearing in court because they are seen as unreliable witnesses; believes that this leads to criminals, including abusers, seeing such people as easy targets and that many criminals go unpunished; therefore welcomes the establishment of the Home Office's inter-departmental review of the criminal justice system; and calls upon the review to consider how learning disabled victims can receive fair treatment within the criminal justice system and in particular from the Crown Prosecution Service and the courts.

This motion has been signed by a total of 115 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.