As Rape on Trial continues its examination of the investigation and prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences in the UK criminal justice system, we are back in Crown Court for our fourth rape trial. Faruq, a taxi driver, is charged with raping Emily, a lone, intoxicated student he picked up in the street after she had been thrown out of a nightclub and separated from her friends: another rape prosecution the mainstream tells us is unlikely to succeed because of rape myths.
In this, the first of four episodes documenting real-life criminal proceedings in Faruq's trial, the prosecution case gets underway.
Topics and elements of the trial covered in this episode: prosecuting counsel's opening speech; special measures direction; the complainant's evidence in chief--her ABE video--and cross-examination; the rule in Browne v Dunn (1893) 6 R. 67, H.L..
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As a detailed and comprehensive account of real court proceedings in a criminal trial in an adversarial, common law legal system, this is also an excellent resource for international students learning Legal English, the Language of Law, and comparative law.
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