Interesting Links for 14-03-2013

[andrewducker]

• The Dark Knight Rises was the best selling movie of 2012. Still beaten by Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Fifa 13.
  (tags: music games uk movies media )
• Rape investigations are undermined by the false belief that false accusations are rife.
  (tags: police rape )
• I had no idea there was such a charge as "Recklessly producing household electricity"
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Comments

[autopope]

Can somebody tell the people at change.org that requiring javascript to submit a simple form is STUPID? Tried two different browsers; as I routinely block third-party javascript for security/privacy reasons, it knocked me back. Upshot: one fewer signature on the petition.

[andrewducker]

I do have a hatred of sites that don't have fallback. Very frustrating.

[danieldwilliam]

It appears you are not alone in not having heard of the offence of recklessly producing electricity.

The defence on the recklessly producing electricity have gone for the tried and tested defence of “that’s not actually a crime”

Technically that the crime is unspecified in Scots Law.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-20728827

[momentsmusicaux]

They take a week to pack? This person is either living a very zen lifestyle, or one that is not in the real world! I'd start packing non-essentials a month before.

[andrewducker]

Context?

[momentsmusicaux]

Oh wait, did I follow a link on one of your links?

Oops. Work is mental at the mo, headless chicken!

[kiffkin]

"The Scottish Government is locking up trans men for not revealing their gender history to partners. Have a petition."

No, The Scottish Government isn't locking up trans men for not revealing their gender history (the Scottish Government don't go around prosecuting people - that would be the Procurator Fiscal, and prosecutions are overseen by the Lord Advocate), the CPS have nothing to do with the case and Wilson lied about his age to obtain consent. Hence the charge of obtaining sexual intimacy by fraud (note: the 23 years old and under defense was removed a few years back). The trans* aspect seems to have been introduced by the defence, not the prosecution

[andrewducker]

Thank you for the two updates there - that's good to know!

(And totally agreed on the middle one. If we can't acknowledge that this could happen to anyone, we're all fucked.)

[ashfae]

Thank you for your response RE the trans imprisonment case, which is very much what I wanted to say and which really needs to be more widely known.

[steer]

Phew: found the report on false accusations of rape

[steer]

Incidentially, in one of the more WTF cases discussed in the original report a woman charged her husband with rape but said she didn't want to continue with the case as she'd made up with her husband. When she was told the police would continue with the prosecution she said she lied and had not been raped. When told she'd be prosecuted for perverting the course of justice (husband had been in prison all this time awaiting trial) she said she hadn't lied and the prosecution continued on her husband. Separately she was charged for perverting the course of justice in claiming she had not been raped and was found guilty of this (presumably her husband was found guilty of rape or her conviction for saying he had not raped her wouldn't stand). I conclude nothing in particular from this other than that life is complicated and sometimes unpleasant but certainly interesting.

The report is rather sad reading in fact.

[andrewducker]

Thank you. That was much clearer than I think you could have made it on Twitter :->

[drdoug]

presumably her husband was found guilty of rape or her conviction for saying he had not raped her wouldn't standIf this is the Ms A case from the report, it wasn't quite like that, going on the details in the court report on her appeal here http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/a-v-r-judgment.pdf. (Warning: It's very distressing, and certainly made me sympathise almost entirely with her and utterly loathe her husband