Part 5: Protection for victims and witnesses in court Section 64: Special measures in civil proceedings: victims of domestic abuse etc
This section provides that Court Rules must make provision to enable the court to make a special measures direction in relation to victims and alleged victims of specified offences (to be specified in regulations made by the Lord Chancellor), and victims, or those at risk of being victims, of domestic abuse, and to require the court to consider whether the quality of their evidence or their participation in the proceedings is likely to be diminished by reason of vulnerability.
	Subsection (3) provides that a person is the victim of a specified offence if another person has been convicted of, or given a caution for, the offence; or a person is the alleged victim of a specified offence if another person has been charged with the offence.