Sexual Assault in UK Law

  • R v Jones (Michael)
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Octubre 2004
    ... ... abuse of process for the Crown to prosecute a charge of indecent assault under section 14(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 in circumstances where ... ...
  • R v C (P)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 26 Noviembre 2008
    ... ... which the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 and the Sexual Offences Acts 1956 and 2003 are the most important. A sentence of ... She did not tell anyone about the assault at the time. At her next stayover, when the offender entered her bedroom ... ...
  • Ashley v Chief Constable of Sussex Police
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Abril 2008
    ... ... appeal in which your Lordships must decide whether a civil case of assault and battery should be permitted to progress to a trial. Two issues of ... is also frequently put forward as a defence where allegations of sexual assault, whether of rape or less serious varieties, are made. If the ... ...
  • R (C) v Middlesbrough Council; A v Hoare and other appeals
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Enero 2008
    ... ... These six appeals all raise the question of whether claims for sexual assaults and abuse which took place many years before the commencement of ... decided that section 11 does not apply to a case of deliberate assault, including acts of indecent assault. An action for an intentional trespass ... ...
  • Julian Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 05 Diciembre 2011
    ... ... Between 13 August 2010 and 18 August 2010, Mr Assange had sexual relations with two women there, AA and SW. On 20 August 2010 SW, ... Act 2003 set out the offence of rape; s.2 sets out the offence of assault by penetration and s.3 the offence of sexual assault. It is an ingredient ... ...
  • R v A (No 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Mayo 2001
    ... ... It was recognised in section 2 of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976 which provided that without the leave of the ... For example Temkin ("Evidence in Sexual Assault Cases: The Scottish Proposal and Alternatives" (1984) 47 MLR 625 , 635) ... ...
  • R v R [1991]
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Octubre 1991
    ... ... 30 July 1990, upon his pleas of guilty, of attempted rape and of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The alleged victim in respect of each ... his wife's parents, who were out at the time, and attempted to have sexual intercourse with her against her will. In the course of doing so he ... ...
  • R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Marzo 1993
    ... ... 2 The definition of assault set forth in the 14th Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee (1980) ... the appellant in private beat a girl of seventeen for purposes of sexual gratification, it was said with her consent. Swift J. said, at p. 507 ... ...
  • Connelly v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Abril 1964
    ... ... committed at the time of the first charge; thus if there is an assault and a prosecution and conviction in respect of it there is no bar to a ... second indictment was struck in the course of the commission of the sexual offence charged in the first. There was first a trial in respect of the ... ...
  • R v H (Sexual assault: Touching)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 01 Febrero 2005
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