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Rape Cases

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

444 c1-22WH 

Session

2005-06

Department

Solicitor General

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Vera Baird | 444 c1-4WH (Link to this contribution) : I agree that those findings were troubling, and one can only say thank goodness for the other two ...

Judy Mallaber | 444 c4WH (Link to this contribution) : My hon. and learned Friend mentioned sexual assault referral centres, one of which is in my area. ...

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Judy Mallaber | 444 c1WH (Link to this contribution) On the question of whether a jury might believe that someone had consented to rape, what conclusions...

Vera Baird | 444 c1WH (Link to this contribution) In 1999, I wrote a pamphlet for the Society of Labour Lawyers called ““Rape in Court””—that is a cle...

Vera Baird | 444 c5-7WH (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Gentleman may well be right that if two people are drunk, the police do not put much effo...

Vera Baird | 444 c4-5WH (Link to this contribution) : My hon. Friend, in her characteristic way, puts her finger on a shining light of success. Although...

Andrew Turner | 444 c5WH (Link to this contribution) What the hon. and learned Lady says may be perfectly true—I have no reason to dispute it—but does sh...

Mike O'Brien | 444 c16WH (Link to this contribution) : The hon. and learned Gentleman is of course right that we need to strike a balance in any court pr...

Lord Garnier | 444 c16-7WH (Link to this contribution) : That is a perfectly reasonable comment to make on the figures presented to us by the hon. and lear...

Simon Hughes | 444 c11-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am always grateful that the hon. and learned Member for Redcar (Vera Baird) gives us regular oppor...

Lord Garnier | 444 c14-5WH (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating the hon. and learned Member for Redcar (Vera Baird) on securing the debate...

Vera Baird | 444 c10-1WH (Link to this contribution) : What my hon. and learned Friend has said is absolutely right, and ties in a little with what the h...

Mike O'Brien | 444 c10WH (Link to this contribution) : Before my hon. and learned Friend moves on, I should say that one of the section 41 issues that I ...

Vera Baird | 444 c9-10WH (Link to this contribution) : Yes, the hon. and learned Gentleman puts his finger on an important point. The difficulty is that ...

Lord Garnier | 444 c9WH (Link to this contribution) I ask the following question out of ignorance; I have neither prosecuted nor defended in a rape case...

Vera Baird | 444 c7-9WH (Link to this contribution) : Most of this sample postdates that change. The researchers complained that the CPS has been involv...

Mike O'Brien | 444 c7WH (Link to this contribution) : The report, which I have looked at, did not say very much about the significant change that has ta...

Vera Baird | 444 c17WH (Link to this contribution) : Suffolk.

Mike O'Brien | 444 c18-20WH (Link to this contribution) : It is a pleasure to appear before you, Mr. Olner. I congratulate my hon. and learned Friend the Me...

Lord Garnier | 444 c17-8WH (Link to this contribution) : I have no idea why Suffolk managed only a 1.6 per cent. conviction rate compared with the hon. and...

Mike O'Brien | 444 c21-2WH (Link to this contribution) : I was not going to point that out. The charging change is important. A specialist rape prosecutor...

Vera Baird | 444 c21WH (Link to this contribution) : I am cheered and glad to be corrected that the data predate the charging change, which has come to...

Subjects

Criminal proceedings Courts Evidence Rape Sexual offences Witnesses Trials

Link

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