The Weekly Law Reports
[2006] 1 WLR 2052
Court of Appeal
Regina
v
G (Secretary of State for the Home Department intervening)
[2006] EWCA Crim 821
2006 March 29;
April 12
April 12
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers CJ, Andrew Smith and Wilkie JJ
Crime
— Sexual offences
— Rape of child under 13
— Boy aged 15 pleading guilty on basis of consensual sexual intercourse with girl he believed to be 15
— Whether absolute offence conflicting with presumption of innocence
— Whether prosecution disproportionate interference with right to private life
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, arts 6, 8
—
Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c 42), ss. 5, 13