men would have routinely wolf whistled at women, maybe made some smart aleck comments about women s appearance, thinking that was their right, that was ok. are you suggesting that there is a way to design a law which would tell men that is not ok, and if they do it, they could face the force of the law? we already have laws here in the united kingdom, both in scotland and in england. and of course, i m a lawyer who practises in the english courts and in international courts, but i. ..my experience of this is that threatening behaviour laws exist. threatening and abusive words or conduct, those.those, you know, offences are already on the statute books. the problem is that women don t know it s available for them, and police officers don t think about it when a woman says, i was at the bus stop and a man started abusing me and talking about my body in an unacceptable way.
and here we sit today with the extraordinary statistic that of 52,000 and more rapes recorded by police in england and wales in 2020, fewer than 850 resulted in charge or summons. what s going wrong? you can fiddle with the numbers. you can start getting more women in positions. but the problem is that if attitudes haven t changed, if the sort of way in which law has been structured has been around sort of male agency and the rules tend to be about, you know, the reasonable man test is now called the reasonable person test, but it s still based around what we assume is reasonable from the life s experience of a man. and it seems that many women who have reported or reported to friends, if not to the authorities, rape, feel that they cannot go through the procedures that would be required to go through a formal police investigation because it is, in theirview, dehumanising, it robs them of agency,
still with us, starting to creep away, that has allowed a little bit of moisture to portion of the atlantic. that extra moisture gives more cloud and potential for mist and fog. a few showers developing through the south west through the afternoon, still bridges with the summer in the northern portion of the irish sea. temperatures at their highest with the sunshine in the south west, if you get to three celsius this afternoon across parts of low action and you be lucky. showers developing across the south, wet and windy spell across northern scotland, rain spread across scotland, rain spread across scotland and northern ireland into the borders northern england as we head into tomorrow morning, because we have more cloud and freezing rain, nutters colt tonight, you ll notice an absence of blue on the chart, just a small chance of frost and fog into tomorrow morning. high pressure gun, this was different to contend with, dry and sunny day in