We can’t consent to this: is a campaign which was set up after it was noticed that increasing numbers of perpetrators of violence against women were attempting, and sometimes succeeding in, raising and relying on a defence of “rough sex gone wrong”. This website provides information on some of these cases and calls for support to make changes to the law.
We are pleased to see this outcome for an important case heard by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
A woman had been in a relationship with an older man. They worked in the same hospital, in the pharmacy department. Her position was precarious,
