Motion or amendment: Definition of a Victim
Motion or amendment by Mr Jon Burrows on .
- MLA
- Mr Jon Burrows
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 30 September 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Definition of a Victim
- Assembly identifier
- Document 452127
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Definition of a Victim
That this Assembly acknowledges that the definition of a victim, as laid out in the Victims and Survivors (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, is unique in respect of services provided by the Victims and Survivors Service; accepts that the widely used definition of a victim remains extant in Northern Ireland; agrees the term innocent victim, in relation to legacy, fairly differentiates those who were harmed, injured, killed or bereaved through no fault of their own from those responsible for perpetrating harm, injury or death on innocent victims; and calls on the Minister of Justice to ensure that there is no obfuscation between what is universally agreed as a victim and a perpetrator within our criminal justice system.
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