Thank you, Madam Chair. Congratulations on your election.
Good afternoon, Minister. Thank you for joining us and congratulations on your new appointment.
It would appear that in practice, it can take a long time before victims can meet a judge or a justice of the peace and obtain all relevant information about their right to lift a publication ban. Not only that, but neither the court nor the attorney is required to inform victims that a publication ban has been imposed. It is therefore difficult for victims to comply with a ban when they don't even know that it has been imposed.
In your opening address, you pointed out that the sentence for failing to comply with a ban is sometimes harsher than the offender's sentence. Who informs victims of their right to request a publication ban, and when is that done?