Judges and juries often wrongly assume that women who use online dating sites “would have sex with anyone”, one of the country’s leading human rights QCs has claimed

“Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws, QC, told the annual Bar conference in London that courts needed to be more aware of women’s rights and the #MeToo movement … A government survey three years ago found that a third of the public generally had the view that sex attack victims bore partial responsibility for an assault if they had been “flirting heavily” with their attacker.”

 

Read the full story in The Times.

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