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The Canadian Judicial Council is reviewing the conduct of a Federal Court judge who questioned the efforts of a sexual assault complainant to fend off her attacker.

The council announced Monday it will review the behaviour of Robin Camp during a 2014 case he adjudicated while serving as an Alberta Provincial Court judge. The case involved the alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman by a Calgary man, whom she accused of sexually assaulting her over a bathroom sink during a house party.

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The review comes after a complaint from four law professors at Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary who described Camp as "dismissive, if not contemptuous" toward sexual assault laws and the rules of evidence.

Trotsky

Nov 11 2015, 02:04 AM

The 72 signatories and 166 parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights recognise, under Article 14 (7):


No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again for an offence for which he has already been finally convicted or acquitted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of each country.

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Then why do appeals exist?

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Just because the female cried rape doesn't mean the other party is automatically guilty.

campy

Nov 11 2015, 03:10 AM

It's a close call between consent and rape especially if a party and drinkimg is going on.

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But if these women are hoping for more than support – if they are hoping for justice – the phones might as well keep ringing.

Less than half of complaints made to police result in criminal charges and, of those charges, only about one in four leads to a guilty verdict.

Women know this. Which explains why, according to the best estimates, roughly 90 per cent of sexual assaults, even those referred to crisis lines, are never brought to the attention of the authorities.

Queen’s University law professor Pamela Cross, an expert on sexual assault, says that if someone she knows personally were attacked, “I would advise thinking very hard” before calling the police.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Thirty years ago, after decades of pressure by victims’ advocates, there was a revolutionary change to the Criminal Code – starting with the very word rape.

The idea was to change culture, not just laws, to acknowledge that sex crimes are not about sex, but acts of physical and psychological violence, and to make it clear that victims should not be blamed but emboldened to seek redress.

Instead of the loaded word rape – with all its moral and social baggage – three levels of sexual assault were written into law, each level of escalating gravity.

But getting rid of the legal term “rape” didn’t stop it. In fact, many argue that it profoundly defanged the justice system and has resulted in lighter – not tougher – sentencing.

campy

Nov 11 2015, 06:14 AM

I think she did keep her knees together.

Over a sink? How could you do otherwise.?