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Pithouse accepts comments to rape victim were wrong

A MAGISTRATE and former Hamilton lawyer has accepted it was wrong to tell a court a victim of rape had suffered “buyer’s remorse”.

A Judicial Commission of Victoria review in April last year found Richard Pithouse had “infringed the standards generally expected of a judicial officer” over comments he made to a victim of rape during a hearing in the Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal in October 2018.

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