THE ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT ACT.
At Warwick Assizes Mr. Baron Huddleston said this Act had given great trouble and anxiety to judges. Fifty years' experience in Court taught him that tbe majority of charges by women against men were untrue. Now that the criminal period was extended to 16 yeats, occasion was given for charges of the most extraordinary character. Assize calendars were full of unfounded charges, and probably when more cases of that kind were exposed the Legislature would reconsider the Act. There were many facts showing that men rather than woman wanted protection, and it was not desirable to afford undue facilities for such cases to be brought forward. The experieuce of those who administered justice was that the Act waß open to very great abuse, and those well-intentioned persons who promoted it would do well to reconsider it.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 107, 7 May 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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142THE ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT ACT. Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 107, 7 May 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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