Top Rape Defence Barrister

A finding of fact of sexual assault in welfare proceedings was upheld in circumstances where the interview and preparation process for a child’s Achieving Best Evidence interviews was sufficiently robust so as to enable the recorded and written records to be taken as a source of reliable evidence and where the judge’s characterisation of the […]

A sentence of two years’ detention was not appropriate in the case of a 14-year-old boy who had committed sexual offences against his eight-year-old cousin; the evidence showed that he did not pose a real risk to others and a custodial sentence would not be in the interests of his welfare. A supervision order for […]