She said: "It's our experience from providing front-line support to victims and survivors that they are being pressurised into handing over vast quantities of personal data and there are question marks over how relevant much of that data is." Sumanta Roy, director of policy for Imkaan, said many victims received further harm from the system rather than justice. It recommends a reintroduction of the merits-based approach, which requires prosecutors to make decisions guided by the quality of the evidence rather than by a perception of how a jury might respond to it. The call comes after rape convictions in England and Wales fell to a record low this year, while figures show that prosecutions and convictions have more than halved in three years. Concerns have been raised in recent years by whistleblowers, campaigners and the police that the CPS has become more risk-averse when making charging decisions, a claim the cirector of public prosecutions, Max Hill, has consistently denied.
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