Further to a discussion on Woman's Hour just before I was hospitalised again, no, of course we should not extend to those accused of rape the anonymity enjoyed by their accusers. Rather, we should take it away from those adult accusers. Ours in an open system of justice.
Like the secrecy of the family courts, like convictions on anonymous evidence, and like both pre-trial convictions and pre-trial acquittals by the Crown Prosecution Service, such anonymity violates that absolute principle. Away with them all.
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