Court Procedures In Rape Cases (EDM672)

Court Procedures In Rape Cases

EDM number 672 in 1993-94, proposed by Mildred Gordon on 23/02/1994.

That this House notes that a recent survey by the Channel 4 television programme Dispatches showed that acquaintance rape is just as violent as stranger rape but that four months' monitoring of rape cases at the Old Bailey showed that convictions in cases of acquaintance rape were only one-third of those in an equal number of cases of stranger rape; and considers that the fault lies in current court procedures and, in particular, judges' discretion to allow the defence to attempt to discredit the complainant by intrusive questioning about the complainant's life style, dress or sexual history and the absence of independent legal representation for complainants.

This motion has been signed by a total of 58 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Type
Mildred Gordon	23/02/1994	Bow and Poplar	Proposed
Dawn Primarolo	23/02/1994	Bristol South	Signed
Audrey Wise	23/02/1994	Preston	Signed
Harry Barnes	23/02/1994	North East Derbyshire	Signed
Tony Banks	23/02/1994	Newham North West	Signed
Nick Ainger	23/02/1994	Pembroke	Signed
Paul Flynn	23/02/1994	Newport West	Signed
Bill Etherington	23/02/1994	Sunderland North	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	23/02/1994	Islington North	Signed
Harry Cohen	23/02/1994	Leyton	Signed
Malcolm Chisholm	23/02/1994	Edinburgh Leith	Signed
Chris Mullin	23/02/1994	Sunderland South	Signed
Alice Mahon	23/02/1994	Halifax	Signed
Ken Livingstone	23/02/1994	Brent East	Signed
Jane Kennedy	23/02/1994	Liverpool Broadgreen	Signed
Glenda Jackson	23/02/1994	Hampstead & Highgate	Signed
Alan Simpson	23/02/1994	Nottingham South	Signed
John Gunnell	24/02/1994	Leeds South and Morley	Signed
Derek Enright	24/02/1994	Hemsworth	Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	24/02/1994	Glasgow, Pollok	Signed
Michael Connarty	24/02/1994	Falkirk East	Signed
Eric Clarke	24/02/1994	Midlothian	Signed
Bill Michie	24/02/1994	Sheffield, Heeley	Signed
Alan Meale	24/02/1994	Mansfield	Signed
John McAllion	24/02/1994	Dundee East	Signed
Lynne Jones	24/02/1994	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Signed
Eric Illsley	24/02/1994	Barnsley Central	Signed
John Heppell	24/02/1994	Nottingham East	Signed
Joan Ruddock	24/02/1994	Lewisham, Deptford	Signed
Ernie Ross	24/02/1994	Dundee West	Signed
Bridget Prentice	24/02/1994	Lewisham East	Signed
William McKelvey	24/02/1994	Kilmarnock & Loudoun	Signed
Anne Campbell	25/02/1994	Cambridge	Signed
Tom Cox	25/02/1994	Tooting	Signed
Tommy Graham	28/02/1994	Renfrew West and Inverclyde	Signed
Mike Hall	28/02/1994	Warrington South	Signed
John Garrett	28/02/1994	Norwich South	Signed
Alan Milburn	28/02/1994	Darlington	Signed
Keith Hill	28/02/1994	Streatham	Signed
Robert Parry	28/02/1994	Liverpool, Riverside	Signed
Colin Pickthall	28/02/1994	West Lancashire	Signed
Max Madden	28/02/1994	Bradford West	Signed
Tessa Jowell	28/02/1994	Dulwich	Signed
Paddy Tipping	01/03/1994	Sherwood	Signed
Win Griffiths	01/03/1994	Bridgend	Signed
Jim Dowd	01/03/1994	Lewisham West	Signed
John Cummings	01/03/1994	Easington	Signed
Jean Corston	01/03/1994	Bristol East	Signed
Keith Bradley	01/03/1994	Manchester, Withington	Signed
Edward O'Hara	02/03/1994	Knowsley South	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	02/03/1994	Blyth Valley	Signed
Allan Rogers	03/03/1994	Rhondda	Signed
Neil Gerrard	03/03/1994	Walthamstow	Signed
Martyn Jones	04/03/1994	Clwyd South West	Signed
George Howarth	10/03/1994	Knowsley North	Signed
Terry Rooney	15/03/1994	Bradford North	Signed
Bill Olner	23/03/1994	Nuneaton	Signed
Richard Caborn	28/03/1994	Sheffield Central	Signed

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