The DPP, Alison Saunders, has released an aide memoire on the issue of consent in sexual cases, for the use of prosecutors and investigators. The document only applied to consent under what many of us still find ourselves calling the “new law”, that is the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The SOA 2003 was a modernising … Continue reading
Barrister Robert Colover has found himself the focus of media ire for his description of a 13 year old girl during a sentencing hearing in which he prosecuted. The NSPCC joined in the condemnation describing his language as representing “a wider pattern about how child sexual abuse cases are taken and treated in our courts”. … Continue reading
