Dated January 2020, released December 2020.

This literature review was completed to provide the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) with an overview of international psychosocial court support service models for victims-survivors of sexual violence going through the criminal justice system (CJS).

The New Zealand Law Commission’s 2015 report, The Justice Response to Victims of Sexual Violence (#4889), identified several international court support models that are considered to represent best practice. This review provides an overview of these models and others. It explores the key commonalities of what is considered ‘best practice’, challenges for implementation and recommendations for the Aotearoa New Zealand context. Accessible academic and grey literature was reviewed and sorted by relevance, and the findings synthesised and summarised from the identified evidence. (From the Executive summary). Record #6978