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Updates to sexual assault under Criminal L

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Updates to sexual assault under Criminal L

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This video is based on the updates on the sexual assault in the legislation and is shared to media by the former Justice Minister Jody Wilson - Raybold. Furthermore, she mentioned that these new changes will hopefully make the victims to be treated with 'compassion and respect'.

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Clarifying consent among updates to sexual assault law

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Transforming the Criminal Justice System

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Transforming the Criminal Justice System

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This video is based upon a real victims experience of been sexually assaulted. She also shares that how her alleged attacker was "released out on bail pending for an appeal". In Nicole's case she was the victim and the justice system had not given great justice for her case. She had been through a lot and people blamed her for been the victim. So this video really shows that when you or your loved once are sexually assaulted by another they tend to get negative hatred from society for been the victim rather than seeing what the victim had been through.

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Transforming the Criminal Justice System: Victim’s Experience

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This is a campaign started by the Edmonton police services. In this campaign they help sexual assault victim's and help other individuals who may know someone else going through sexual assault at any environment; to be aware of the surroundings that they are not alone. When one person attacks you there will be a whole community behind the victims support. However, the main idea of this campaign is focused on the offenders and telling them that sexual assault starts from them and they are the once who can stop it too.

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Justice Department had a  knowledge exchange in 2017.

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Justice Department had a  knowledge exchange in 2017.

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This was a gathering of the professors, judges and prosecution lawyers and they each had a moment to express their opinion based on sexual assault and third party cases. The main speaker I truly was following through was Mr.Spratt a defence lawyers opinion and challenges they face when presenting sexual assault cases. Also, believe that the defence lawyers should try harder to make their clients feel less stressed and to keep fighting for their clients justice while protecting their character.Overall, the panel believed that the sexual past of the victims are not necessary to be brought up in court room and not to be related for the actual sexual assault case they are actually in for.

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Knowledge Exchange 2017 – Sexual Assault Trial: Evidence, Testimonial Aids and Expert Witnesses

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Tarana Burke, an African-American activist was the founder of this movement and it was pretty recent that it was started in the United States and have been spread across the globe including Canada. This movement is based on as support for survivor's and as an encouragement for the fighters out there to come forward with their story and to become young girls or boys both men and women's inspiration. This movement brought a lot of workplace sexual assaults and harassments even the politicians were being cruel.

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This website is a helpline for women specifically since women are more likely to be the next victim in society. Also, how when helplines like these are available most women who were afraid will be able to ideally go for these kinds of availabilities when they are ready to speak with the community that will help them. Also,I believe that you do not have to be a victim to help another, woman to woman or man to man, people can be united to help each other out.

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We provide free, 24-hour, 7-day-a-week crisis counselling, emotional support, information and referrals via telephone to women in up to 154 languages- completely anonymous and confidential.

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Statistics of sexual assault trend from 1983 to 2015

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Statistics of sexual assault trend from 1983 to 2015

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This statistics picture shows the rapid changes for sexual assault cases when different penalties were made and we can see that after Bill c-46 we start to see a decreasing change in reports about sexual assault.

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This article is very leaned towards opinion based by the author. The #metoo movement have brought a lot of confusion between males and their actions towards having serious relationships and "consent videos" were a create as a solution for males to be less confused However, there is a doubt that the courts will not see a video consent as a real consideration in any way.
As for the fact that a women giving consent to having sexual intercourse through a video cannot be trusted since we never know if the women is actually giving consent by her own choice or by coercion.

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The ominous-sounding term is being used to describe a video of someone consenting to a sexual encounter. In a recent article on the topic, the female author recalled being in the throes of passion when a man whipped out his smartphone and asked her to "quickly just say that you want to have sex with me", before sex. Hot. She also recalls the tale of an anonymous "friend of a friend" who met a "minor celebrity" on a night out and was asked to star in a consent video before they slept together, stating "her full name, that she was there of her own accord and that she consented to having sex with him," because "his contract was very strict".

By all accounts, the sexual encounters in question were consensual, yet these women's experiences mark a worrying trend towards men trying to preemptively cover themselves in the event of an accusation of rape or sexual assault. Consent videos bring up a lot of questions: are they necessary? Who do they benefit? And would they even be considered evidence to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that the accuser consented if they were presented to the police, lawyers and a jury?

Speaking to experts in law, social media and sexual violence, the verdict is clear: consent videos probably aren't the answer. Instead of solving an issue, they throw up more problems, not least the fact that consent is an ongoing discussion and it won't always be clear which specific acts the person on camera is consenting to (they may want to have vaginal sex with a condom but not anal sex, for example).

Durham University law professor Clare McGlynn, who specializes in sexual violence and image-based sexual abuse, says that in a case of alleged rape, a consent video is only ever going to be one part of a broader range of evidence going before a jury. "This is because consent is ongoing and can be withdrawn at any time. Therefore, a video may record 'consent' but the situation may then change and consent is withdrawn."

There's also a risk that the "consent" is given under duress or coercion, and is therefore not free and valid consent, McGlynn explains to Refinery29. "There is a danger, therefore, that in considering whether we should be recording consent, we are distracted from focusing on what we should all want and encourage - enthusiastic consent that is clear and free."

Dr Bernie Hogan, a senior research fellow at Oxford University's Internet Institute, doesn't believe consent videos have a future, and says they certainly won't become mainstream. "My initial thought is that it's probably not very prevalent, and it's certainly not very prevalent for someone the second time they try to have sex with someone - because they probably wouldn't get that far. However, I do think that it identifies an important anxiety," he says.

He also reminds us that we shouldn't think technology can solve all our problems. We can't turn things that we can't encode, like consent, into technology. Consent "resists encoding and in many ways that might be a reason why it forms such an anxiety for men," Hogan says. The only technological solution to the problem that could work would be "continuous surveillance", not a consent video per se, but filming the whole encounter, he suggests.

"I don't think everyone is going to do that, but I think some people would. People taking a phone, putting it on the nightstand and filming it is plausible. Some people will find that sexually arousing, others will find that terrifying." But of course, not everyone is going to agree to that, particularly on a first or second encounter.

The concept is 'deeply troubling' and perpetuates the lie that most reports of sexual assault are false.

Katie Russell, spokesperson for Rape Crisis England & Wales

The view on consent videos from the charity Rape Crisis' perspective is also clear. Katie Russell, spokesperson for Rape Crisis England & Wales, describes the concept as "deeply troubling" and says it perpetuates the lie that most reports of sexual assault are false. "It suggests both a complete lack of understanding of what consent is and isn't, and that the social myth - and it is absolutely a myth - that women, in particular, routinely lie about having been raped or sexually assaulted is as ingrained and widespread as ever."

Consent is not a "grey area", she highlights. On the contrary, it's clearly defined in law: a person consents to sex and/or sexual activity when they agree by choice, and have the freedom and capacity to make that choice. She acknowledges, however, that while consent is a "clear concept" in theory, it's not always clear-cut in reality. Someone may be "scared, threatened or coerced into saying 'yes' to sex, for instance, and that would not equal their consent because they hadn't made a free choice."

Like McGlynn, she emphasizes that consent is far from static. It's "a 'live' concept and an ongoing conversation," she adds. "Someone might freely consent to sex - and even be recorded doing so - one moment, and the very next moment change their mind, or lose their capacity, because they fall asleep, for instance, and consent would instantly be gone, and sexual activity with that person would then be a very serious criminal offense."

Instead of whipping out their smartphones, then, Rape Crisis believes "men would be better off spending their time communicating with their sexual partners throughout their encounters, checking in with them at regular intervals to make sure their partner is equally comfortable with what's happening between them."

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Some Men Think Sexual 'Consent Videos' Solve Their Problems, But They Only Create More

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The ominous-sounding term is being used to describe a video of someone consenting to a sexual encounter. In a recent article on the topic, the female author recalled being in the throes of passion when a man whipped out his smartphone and asked her to "quickly just say that you want to have sex with me", before sex.