1 April 2019
Sex Dolls: New Guidance but No Clarity
Last week the CPS published guidance on prosecuting cases of childlike sex dolls.
21 February 2019
Lie detection tests for convicted domestic abuse offenders is a costly distraction
One of the more striking features of the government’s draft domestic abuse bill, which was published 21 January, was the proposed extension of the ‘polygraph condition’ to convicted offenders’ licences. In this blog, Matthew Hardcastle questions the inclusion of polygraph testing in the government’s recent draft domestic abuse bill.
16 January 2019
Sex for rent / rent for sex - revised CPS guidance
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has recently published revised guidance on “Prostitution and Exploitation of Prostitution Offences.” This guidance follows a series of reports in late-2018 of landlords offering rooms for no financial cost, so long as the tenant agreed to engage in sexual activity.
7 December 2018
Eastenders explores rape: Part 4 – what happens when someone is accused of rape?
In this blog series, we have explored the concept of consent, the making of a complaint of rape from the perspective of the victim and what happens to those who may be interviewed as witnesses. In this piece we will look at what happens to someone who is accused of rape.
23 November 2018
Changes to the Code for Crown Prosecutors
David Sleight discusses the revised ‘Code for Crown Prosecutors’ and suggests that a shift in policy to encourage prosecutors to carefully review cases and exculpatory evidence at an early stage is a good idea in principle. Sleight argues the revised code is, however, ‘yet another example of a well-intentioned policy change that has little or no consideration as to what is happening on the ground’.
