Top Rape Defence Barrister

A European arrest warrant had sufficiently particularised a convicted requested person’s involvement in a conspiracy to traffic women into prostitution in Italy, the demands in respect of conviction warrants being less onerous than those in relation to accusation warrants. An ECHR art.3 argument based on Italian prison conditions had been foreclosed by the decision in […]

On the first occasion that the Court of Appeal considered the application of the revised Sexual Offences Definitive Guideline, effective from 1 April 2014, to offences under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 s.30, it considered how to approach a case of multiple offending.

The court gave guidance regarding the assessment of a complainant’s mental capacity in a criminal trial when the alleged offences involved proof of a lack of consent.