TruemorsLast Updated Stories in Legality
"The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned." This is a privacy dimension that I had not considered before in terms of body...
This follows on from a piece I posted yesterday around the issue of evidence on alcohol use in rape cases. In short, Lady Stern is calling for an abolition of an argument often invoked in rape cases that drunk men who rape can be excused because they know no better. This...
"Drunken men who demand sex from their wives or girlfriends should be treated as rapists and no longer allowed to claim their judgment was blurred by alcohol, according to the head of the government's review of the rape laws."Well now. This is what seems to be a progressive...
"Pro-life hatred so dominates the debate it's hard to imagine any real change following this bid to overturn the Irish abortion ban."This piece resonates so greatly with me. As a pro-abortion women who has spent most of her life so far living in Ireland, I know that there is...
In many respects, this has long been the issue for me with regard to gay marriage/ civil unions. It is the interference of the state, again, in the decisions that we (any of us) make about our private lives. The UK government interferes with every single aspect of our private...
"Introducing the first of the British government's "dodgy dossiers" on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in 2002, the then prime minister, Tony Blair, announced that Saddam Hussein's military planning "allows for some of the WMD to be ready within 45 minutes of an order to...
"The Iranian government’s investigations into allegations of torture, rape and unlawful killings in the country “seemed to have been more concerned with covering up abuses than getting at the truth”, Amnesty International said today." Well, there's nothing too...
Feminist criminologists have been studying perceptions of female offenders for a number of years now. The data collected around this issue indicate that a woman will be demonised to a greater extent than a man for committing the same offence. For example: "With the murders...
"Conservative religious leaders were some of the sharpest opponents of the federal legislation passed in October that expanded federal hate crimes law to include protections for homosexuals." Here are some interesting statistics about hate crime in the US. Now, I am undecided...
"A police force failed to properly investigate an allegation of rape and let the victim down "by basic policing errors and lack of adequate support", an independent investigation has found."This is another in a series of stories highlighted by this author on the treatment and...
"The ability of the criminal justice system to deal effectively and humanely with both rape victims, and victims with mental health problems, has been an area of persistent criticism in recent times."I think I could probably post a piece a day about this issue. Rape victims...
"In the first known case of its kind, a woman who made a rape complaint which was not investigated properly has reached an out of court settlement with police. Catherine says the man who raped her knew he was targeting a particularly vulnerable woman." This is gratifying news...
"Gordon Brown has told the BBC that Pakistan must do more to "break" al-Qaeda and find Osama Bin Laden. Questions must be asked about why nobody had been able "to spot or detain or get close to" the al-Qaeda leader, the prime minister said. " I really cannot help but find it...
"A damning report into child abuse in the Dublin archdiocese has criticised the Catholic Church hierarchy for covering up the abuse. The report investigated how Church and state authorities handled allegations of child abuse against 46 priests. " I thought that this had...
"The Chilcot inquiry is incapable of addressing the key issue of whether the invasion of Iraq was legal, senior judicial figures have said, adding to the controversy surrounding the inquiry's legitimacy."Is this going to be taking two steps back before it's even begun? It's...
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