Changes to Section 2 of Sexual Offences Act 1976.

The enigma of consent.

tive of ethical, moral and cultural conclusions which changes in response to public awareness and medicolegal prompting. In 1976, in the case of Morgan1, ‘no’ was ‘yes’. In November 1976 the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 19762 made ‘no’ finally ‘no’. This was not serendipity. In the case of Morgan, a raped woman was said to have consented because the rapists believed she was consenting. This ...

Termination of pregnancy and children: consent and confidentiality issues.

While the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act1 (Choice Act) allows a female of any age to consent to a termination of pregnancy,2 there are other statutes, such as the Child Care Act3 and the Children’s Act,4 that provide for different ages of consent for medical and surgical procedures. Doctors are not always certain whether young girls are legally capable of giving proper informed consent ...

The Children's Amendment Act and the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act: duty to report child abuse and sexual offences against children and mentally disabled persons.

Polish project of a Sex Offenders Registry - a mental health professionals' perspective.

The paper discusses the governmental draft of the Act on counteracting threats of sexual offences. It assumes the creation of the Registry of Sex Offenders in a version with a limited access and a version available to the public. The registry is supplemented with a publically available map of sexual crime threats, which includes the places of sexual offences and the places of residence of offen...

Reported rapes at a hospital rape centre: demographic and clinical profiles.

To the Editor: Figures for the period 2008/2009 indicate a 10% rise in the number of reported sexual offences compared with figures for 2007/2008.1 The increase may be partly attributable to the recent version of the act regulating sexual offences: the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, Act 32 of 2007 (Act). In this Act, the definition of rape has been broadened t...