That, say the police, is unfair to victims. Victims gain nothing by unsafe convictions and miscarriages of justice. In the name of a bogus 'victim's right' that is really the right of the police to shore up their case, the real rights of the accused are undermined. In fact real rights do not compete. The imaginary right of a victim to be excused cross-examination and the real rights of the accused seem to be in conflict, but that is because the special rights claimed on behalf of victims are not rights at all, just privileges.
Real rights are equal for everyone.
Only special privileges contradict each other. And when equal rights are degraded into special privileges, there is always a judge or a royal commission on hand to weigh them in the balance. Underneath all the pretence of even-handedness, what is really happening is not a compromise between competing rights, but the compromising of our rights and freedoms per se . Insisting on the meaning of rights is not semantics. Real rights are under attack.