Rape complainants are let down by a largely pale, male, stale judiciary that has struggled to keep up with changing sexual mores – don’t expect a conviction if you’re raped on a Tinder date, warns the QC. “The smell of the gentlemen’s club permeates every crevice of the Inns of Court,” writes Kennedy. And while there has been some change – much of it initiated by Kennedy herself – progress has been halting and deep-seated reform is still urgently needed. Twenty-five years have passed since Kennedy published Eve Was Framed, the groundbreaking precursor to her latest work. And going by the litany of horrors that Kennedy details in this relentless, often disturbing book, no wonder. And if women “had confidence in the justice system and men really feared the shame and consequence of misconduct”, she says, “we would not be seeing a resort to anonymous accusations”.īut women don’t have confidence in the justice system. This movement, writes Kennedy, is “a form of civil disobedience”. It’s been almost exactly a year since the spark that ignited what Baroness Kennedy calls the “tsunami” of the #MeToo movement: the Weinstein allegations that rocked Hollywood and led to the downfall of a stream of powerful and abusive men.
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