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Top silks break ranks to back NSW plan to overhaul sexual consent laws
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A group of high-profile NSW barristers including former Commonwealth solicitor-general Justin Gleeson, SC, has thrown its weight behind a plan to overhaul the state’s sexual assault laws to emphasise the importance of seeking active agreement to sex.
Former solicitor-General Justin Gleeson SC, pictured in 2016.
Credit:Andrew Meares
NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman announced last week that the state would overhaul its sexual assault laws to mirror the affirmative consent model in Tasmania, where the criminal law states explicitly that a person does not consent to sex if they do not “say or do anything to communicate consent”.
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Attorney-General Mark Speakman announced yesterday that he’d seek to reform NSW consent laws to include “enthusiastic” or “affirmative” consent.
The announcement was met with widespread praise by survivors like Saxon Mullins who told
SBS News the proposed changes were an important step into changing the way that we talk about sexual violence.”
But two experts told
The Feed that while they welcome the proposed changes, they remain ‘cautiously optimistic’ about how they’d work in practice.
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Dr Julia Quilter has already examined the three major legislative reforms in the sexual offences space; in 1981, 1989 and 2007.
She said while the reforms proposed by the Attorney-General have the potential to create positive change, we won’t know their impact until they’re tested in courtrooms.