Lavinia Woodward: Judge investigated for sparing Oxford student jail

Our thanks to Stu for this. Extracts:

The case was the subject of huge debate about inequality in the criminal justice system, prompted by the judge deferring sentencing and describing the attack as “a complete one-off”…

Campaigners against male domestic abuse said Judge Pringle’s decision risks putting male victims of domestic abuse off coming forward. Mark Brooks, chairman of the ManKind Initiative, branded Woodward’s sentence “unfair” and said she would have been expected to go to prison had she been a man.

A JCIO (Judicial Conduct Investigations Office) spokesman confirmed it “received a complaint against HHJ Ian Pringle QC” and that the findings would be published online. According to its website, the watchdog can “only deal with complaints about a judicial office-holder’s personal conduct – it cannot deal with complaints about judicial decisions or about case management”.

Man, 21, cleared of rape after girl says her claim was ‘fun’

Our thanks to Michael for this. An extract:

Mr Owen was this week cleared by a jury at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court after it was shown the woman’s Facebook messages.

Writing to a friend about her allegations, she said: “OMG hahahahaha my mum knows.

“She wants to hold my hand to go through it all with me. I was only raped chill the **** out.

“Going to ring police tomorrow. My mum wants to come so I’m going to do it while she’s on holiday. It’s going to be so fun.”

So the man’s details are in the public arena, and who knows, this may mean he never works in his chosen profession again. He’s just 21. The woman’s identity is unknown, and she will enjoy anonymity for life, free to do the same thing again and again. Note that she’s repeatedly referred to in the article (and the headline) as a ‘girl’, seldom as a ‘woman’. And the police/CPS decided to prosecute a man on the strength of the word of a woman who considered making a false rape allegation ‘fun’. Let’s not forget that feminists want to remove juries in rape trials, so anti-male judges can convict innocent men for rape.

Agnieszka Niemira is a blithering idiot

We moderate all comments on our blogs and YouTube channel, to spare followers the angst of ploughing through the nonsense feminists spout. But sometimes a feminist will make a series of comments of such mind-numbing stupidity and ignorance, we feel it’s our civic duty to publish them, for public entertainment. Agnieszka Niemira is such a person. She left four comments on a video of an episode of The Big Questions, which features two estimable women, Belinda Brown and Angela Epstein (I do wish Angela would declare herself an anti-feminist rather than a non-feminist, in common with Belinda, but that’s for another day). The video is here, Niemira’s comments here.

The beginning of the end for campus kangaroo courts?

Our thanks to Len for this. An extract:

Advocates for the Obama rules defend them as “survivor centered.” Translation: They’re biased against the accused. And bias has no place in a court. The Obama rules have been criticized by the American Bar Association, the American College of Trial Lawyers and Harvard Law School faculty — hardly right-wingers.

DeVos promises new rules in the coming months. Vowing no tolerance for sexual assault, she said “schools must continue to confront those horrific crimes and behaviors head-on.” But, “the process also must be fair and impartial.”

Fair? Don’t hold your breath. Campuses are so dominated by anti-male ideology that it’s unlikely men there will be given a fair shake under any rules.

The parade of lives ruined by campus sex tribunals proves college administrators are eager to deny males the right to have a lawyer, know the charges, gather evidence, cross-examine witnesses or even be presumed innocent until proven guilty. That’s not going to change overnight.