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The victim’s right to review—the VRR—introduced in 2013, allows victims to challenge certain CPS decisions, such as not charging, discontinuing or offering no evidence in a case. For survivors of rape and serious sexual offences and other victims, VRR is often the only route to challenge CPS decisions, but in the Crown Court, it usually comes after the CPS has already offered no evidence in court, at which point the case is, in effect, dead.