A barrister has hit the headlines after claiming that paralytically drunk women are still able to consent to sex.
Alison Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions, had issued advice to police stating that women who were blind drunk should be deemed unable to give consent. This infuriated 71-year-old barrister David Osborne who wrote a spittle-flecked blog on his website entitled "she was gagging for it".
After the predictable misogynistic whine ("Is it just me, or are women taking over the world?" "Is it just me, or do you share my dislike for the prefix Ms? It's all to do with political correctness, or so they say") Osborne gets to the nub of the issue. "I have always found it distatesful and unattractive the suggestion that as the victim was blind drunk she was therefore unable to give her consent to sex". Presumably he was off sick when his law lecturer explained that consent has to be freely given by someone with the capacity so to do.
Before you could say "bringing the profession into disrepute" Osborne found himself on the front page of the Mirror and was subsequently villified all over the global media. He remains unrepentant, saying that at least the issue is being talked about, and claiming that his detractors are generally women and that men "have a different take on the issue".
A spokesman for the Bar Standards Board said "the BSB must balance the public interest in being open and transparent against our duty to safeguard information and confidentiality. The BSB does not usually comment on individual cases that we may or may not be investigating in order to maintain that balance."
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Alison Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions, had issued advice to police stating that women who were blind drunk should be deemed unable to give consent. This infuriated 71-year-old barrister David Osborne who wrote a spittle-flecked blog on his website entitled "she was gagging for it".
After the predictable misogynistic whine ("Is it just me, or are women taking over the world?" "Is it just me, or do you share my dislike for the prefix Ms? It's all to do with political correctness, or so they say") Osborne gets to the nub of the issue. "I have always found it distatesful and unattractive the suggestion that as the victim was blind drunk she was therefore unable to give her consent to sex". Presumably he was off sick when his law lecturer explained that consent has to be freely given by someone with the capacity so to do.
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David Osborne being a massive twatmandrill yesterday |
Before you could say "bringing the profession into disrepute" Osborne found himself on the front page of the Mirror and was subsequently villified all over the global media. He remains unrepentant, saying that at least the issue is being talked about, and claiming that his detractors are generally women and that men "have a different take on the issue".
A spokesman for the Bar Standards Board said "the BSB must balance the public interest in being open and transparent against our duty to safeguard information and confidentiality. The BSB does not usually comment on individual cases that we may or may not be investigating in order to maintain that balance."
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And yes, the law is clear - if someone is virtually comatose - yes they cannot consent to sex, nor if she is asleep, nor if she is drugged and all the rest. I know it may shock some senior male lawyers to learn this but they should have concentrated a bit harder in law lectures or else stick to blow up dolls.
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I was going to add him to my list of Counsel I Will Never Instruct but he looks a bit shit anyway. He specialises in motoring offences, contract law and Landlord & Tenant.
Plus he is old and hasn't been made a silk yet.
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If having sex whilst very drunk was a crime there are about 100 blokes out there who could go Jail in my case.
And, they were all crap at it.
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And morning after regret does not = rape.
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