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Originally Posted by Hugh
From my previous post…
Your last quote refers to a CPS FOI request, not to the actual Home Office Circular referred to, which is still available on the Home Office website archives, and has been referred to, and quoted from, many times in this thread.
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Thank you - coming from you, that means a lot…
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Copies sent to:
Chief Officers of Police (England Wales and Northern Ireland), Clerks to the Police Authorities, the Chief Clerk of the Crown Court, the Chief Crown Prosecutor, the Clerk to the Justices, Association of Chief Police Officers (England Wales and Northern Ireland), LA Chief Executives, Director of Education, Director of Children’s social care, Chief Executive Regional Health Authority
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2008 is after much of it had gone on. Not sure the circular is that relevant, as it seems to revolve around parental care, which is not where the problems were.
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The term "informed choice" is used in the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) 2008 Act. It is used in connection with whether somebody has a mental disorder and cannot make an "informed choice". Is that where the confusion comes from?
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7.19.Part 4 covers offences designed to give protection to persons with a mental disorder. The offences cover situations where the victim is unable to agree to sexual activity because of a mental disorder which impedes their capacity to make an informed choice, or where it might appear that the victim had agreed to the sexual activity but because of a mental disorder which makes them vulnerable to inducements, threats or deceptions, or because they are in a relationship of care, their consent was not or could not be deemed to have been freely given.
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Find it difficult to believe that dozens of police officers would've lied about it.