Indecent Assault in UK Law
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The Need to Kill Off Zombie Law
The law on indecent assault is currently misunderstood, leading to substantial injustice for some who have been abused as children. The first half of the article explores the nature and causes of t...... ... ArticleThe Need to Kill Off ZombieLaw: Indecent Assault,Where It Went Wrongand How to Put It RightCatarina ... ...
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Difference in the House of Lords
Taking the media reaction to Brenda Hale’s appointment to the appellate committee of the House of Lords in January 2004 as its starting point, this article considers...... ... in relation to familial (dis)connection, unwanted parenthood and indecent assault, the article concludes that, far from being a malevolent threat, ... ...
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Inventing a ‘Lesbian Age of Consent’? The History of the Minimum Age for Sex between Women in the UK
This article analyses historical and contemporary debates over age of consent legislation regulating sex between women in the UK. A minimum age for sexual activity between females was created by th...... ... , which removed ‘consent’ as a defence to the offence of ‘indecent assault’ against a girl under the age of 16, yet prosecutions remained ... ...
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The Rape of a Label Why it Would Be Wrong to Follow Canada in Having a Single Offence of Unlawful Sexual Assault
With the enactment of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, the UK has just had its biggest shake-up of the existing law on sexual offences. Rape has been widened to include oral sex, a new offence of assa...... ... Rape has been widened to include oral sex, a new offence of assault by penetra- tion has been created, and what was indecent assault has been renamed sexual assault. Twenty-one years ago the Canadians did away altogether with the legal term of rape and created an ... ...
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The Doctrine of Incapability and the Emperor's New Clothes: A Protected Defendant or Non-Existent Offences?
... ... circumvented application of the doctrine by convicting for indecent assault instead. This article will show that they were all wrong and, ... ...
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Offences and Case Law
... ... G. Offences and Case Law By A BOROUGH CHIEF CLERK X.-INDECENT ASSAULT ON FEMALES "Whosoever shall be convicted of any indecent ... ...
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Indecent Assaults a Summary of the Legal Aspect
... ... Indecent Assaults A Summary of the Legal Aspect By SERGEANT R. H. ASHWORTH West Riding Constabulary WHAT IS AN INDECENT ASSAULT? T HE RE is no statutory definition! Perhaps the persons responsible for the drafting of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, ... ...
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Review: The Criminal Justice Act, 1948
... ... to be so, has no possible answer if he is charged with indecent assault and not with the full offence." It was accordingly held that ... ...
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Correspondence
... ... to be so, has no possible answer if he is charged with indecent assault and not with the full offence." It was accordingly held that ... ...
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