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| Titre : | A Reasonable cause : the age of consent and the debate on gender and justice in the Irish Free State, 1922-35 (2011) |
| Auteurs : | Susannah RIORDAN, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol 37 n 147 2011) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 427-446 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | On 23 May 2006 the Irish Supreme Court declared that the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1935 was inconsistent with the 1937 Constitution. It found that section 1(1) of the act deprived a man charged with unlawful carnal knowledge of the defence of having made a reasonable mistake as to the age of the girl in question, and therefore of his constitutional right to a trial in due course of law. In his judgment, Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman stated that "the Section contains no balance: it wholly removes the mental element and expressly criminalises the mentally innocent. It need not necessarily have done so." This article explores the background to the passage of the 1935 act, and examines why legislators took the decision to abolish this defence |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Susannah Riordan |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
