Where Exeter's Legal Minds Express Themselves
With 1 in 3 women currently in university admitting to being sexually abused[1] and over 79,000 cases of sexual assault being recorded in 2016/17;[2] surely we should have a system in place to adequately protect them? I for one, held the belief that if I were ... More »
Introduction “Ireland has changed utterly; The cruel eighth amendment is history” wrote Ivana Bacik for the Guardian in May 2018.[1] The amendment of the Irish constitution granting the ‘legalisation’ of abortion was hailed a constitutional revolution which ... More »
Imagine a set of circumstances in which a young woman—brunette, comely, latterly pregnant—is walking down a dark alleyway; her husband is engaged, at home, in decorating the nursery and anticipates the return of his wife. The young woman reaches about halfway ... More »
While in the commercial arena, when consent has been fraudulently obtained, the contract may be set aside,[1] in sexual affairs, consent obtained through deception is vitiated only in a very narrow fraction of instances, covered by section 76 of the Sexual Off... More »