Add to ORKGtypes: ArticleAuthor's pre-print version published with permission of Thomson Reuters. Final version published in Criminal Law Review; available online at http://www.westlaw.co.uk/This article examines the extent to which the rape shield is displaced by reliance at trial on the defence of honest or honest and reasonable belief in consent. It also raises the question of the legitimacy of judicial intervention in terms of denying the accused the opportunity to raise the defence of lack of mens rea
Starlyn Watts\u27 experience at trial makes clear that despite legislative safeguards put in place t...
'She is in the true sense asking for it'/ 'If she doesn't want it she only has to keep her legs shut...
The legal and criminal justice systems proceed on the masculinist assumption that a woman's bod...
The prosecution of rape frequently requires a jury to decide whether the defendant reasonably believ...
In this ground-breaking article submitted for publication in mid-1986, Lucinda Vandervort creates a ...
In DPP v Morgan, the House of Lords correctly concluded that an accused who entertained a genuine be...
The concept of consent is fundamental in considering the crime of rape under the Sexual Offences Act...
Commission of rape in most jurisdictions hinges upon one crucial manifestation consent. In analysing...
In a jurisdiction where the definition of rape is based on consent, how consent is understood and as...
Attrition rate studies have outlined the role the ‘real rape’ stereotype plays in prosecutor decisio...
In the 2020 case of Coko v S 2022 1 SACR 24 (ECG), the Eastern Cape High Court held that a person's ...
This paper discusses controversies over the reasonable belief in consent defence to sexual assault s...
Rape shield laws have played an important role in protecting complainants and jurors from some of th...
Sexual offences in England and Wales have had a dramatic reimagining in the last 15 years, with the ...
In this paper, the author, using a hypothetical fact scenario as a focus, discusses competing interp...
Starlyn Watts\u27 experience at trial makes clear that despite legislative safeguards put in place t...
'She is in the true sense asking for it'/ 'If she doesn't want it she only has to keep her legs shut...
The legal and criminal justice systems proceed on the masculinist assumption that a woman's bod...
The prosecution of rape frequently requires a jury to decide whether the defendant reasonably believ...
In this ground-breaking article submitted for publication in mid-1986, Lucinda Vandervort creates a ...
In DPP v Morgan, the House of Lords correctly concluded that an accused who entertained a genuine be...
The concept of consent is fundamental in considering the crime of rape under the Sexual Offences Act...
Commission of rape in most jurisdictions hinges upon one crucial manifestation consent. In analysing...
In a jurisdiction where the definition of rape is based on consent, how consent is understood and as...
Attrition rate studies have outlined the role the ‘real rape’ stereotype plays in prosecutor decisio...
In the 2020 case of Coko v S 2022 1 SACR 24 (ECG), the Eastern Cape High Court held that a person's ...
This paper discusses controversies over the reasonable belief in consent defence to sexual assault s...
Rape shield laws have played an important role in protecting complainants and jurors from some of th...
Sexual offences in England and Wales have had a dramatic reimagining in the last 15 years, with the ...
In this paper, the author, using a hypothetical fact scenario as a focus, discusses competing interp...
Starlyn Watts\u27 experience at trial makes clear that despite legislative safeguards put in place t...
'She is in the true sense asking for it'/ 'If she doesn't want it she only has to keep her legs shut...
The legal and criminal justice systems proceed on the masculinist assumption that a woman's bod...