Words can only fail when faced with this

[oursin]

Rape victims seeking compensation are having their payouts reduced if they had been drinking before they were attacked. That's right. Women who are among that devastatingly small minority whom the law in its wisdom has deemed to really have been raped, are being denied Criminal Injuries Compensation because [sic] 'they had been drinking'.

However

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[shiv5468]

The BBC report on that is subtly different. The case has been won, and the principle established, so that CICA should make full awards.

[oursin]

That is something.

[shiv5468]

DId you see that the women employees of whatever it was local council managed to win their fight for equal pay, and not have those Settlements stand whereby they were equalised over time. The one the Equality Commission withdrew funding from?

[oursin]

Rings something of a bell.

[shiv5468]

Neither are the BBC these days.