Julia Hartley-Brewer has it right, even if the real solution would be for both sexes to behave better.
Still, law and morality, though far from unnconnected, are not the same thing.
I appreciate that this is a novel idea, but when is there going to be a division of the House of Commons on this enormous change to the law, and indeed to the very basis of our legal system?
How many women MPs want their brothers or sons to be liable to imprisonment for rape on nothing more than the say-so of one woman, and that purely in order to meet a conviction target that is not even specified?
On nothing more than that woman's anonymous say-so, at that?
How many of those brothers or sons would vote to re-elect any MP, of either sex, who had failed to vote against this?
Away with this, and away with the existence Harman's Law while we are about it. Convictions under the latter, which would not have been possible before it, ought to be set aside by Statute.
If not to make the law, and if not to uphold liberties as fundamental as the presumption of innocence, then what is Parliament for?
Still, law and morality, though far from unnconnected, are not the same thing.
I appreciate that this is a novel idea, but when is there going to be a division of the House of Commons on this enormous change to the law, and indeed to the very basis of our legal system?
How many women MPs want their brothers or sons to be liable to imprisonment for rape on nothing more than the say-so of one woman, and that purely in order to meet a conviction target that is not even specified?
On nothing more than that woman's anonymous say-so, at that?
How many of those brothers or sons would vote to re-elect any MP, of either sex, who had failed to vote against this?
Away with this, and away with the existence Harman's Law while we are about it. Convictions under the latter, which would not have been possible before it, ought to be set aside by Statute.
If not to make the law, and if not to uphold liberties as fundamental as the presumption of innocence, then what is Parliament for?
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