Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sexual
Offences
- Identification
- Section 1
- After allegation, illegal to include info likely to lead to identification
- name
- age
- school
- workplace
- still or moving pic
- When does it cease to apply?
- After death
- By court order at D's request
- To encourage witnesses
- For an alibi to come forward
- Victim's consent
- Must be in writing
- Must be 16 or over
- False allegation
- Anonymity
- for life
- includes sexual harassment at work
- Jigsaw identification
- If incest case, media use D's name or none and say within family
- Defences
- Editor, reporter or publication
- not aware
- no suspicion
- no reason to suspect
- Editor's Code of Practice
- Policed by IPSO
- Clause 11
- Press must not identify victims or sexual assault or contribute to identification
- Without justification
- Clause 7
- Press must not identify children under 16 who are victims or witnesses in sex offence case
- Even if legal