Harriet Wistrich: 'The decriminalisation of rape'

As a human rights lawyer, Harriet Wistrich knows all too well of the importance of protecting defendants rights in criminal trials. But dwindling prosecutions of rape in the last few years has led her to believe we have ‘virtually decriminalised’ the offence in the UK. In January, the Centre for Women’s Justice (CJW), representing the End Violence Against Women Coalition, brought a judicial review agains the CPS. In this week’s episode, Harriet, who is the founder and director of the charity, tells Calum McCrae why they brought that action and the continued importance of putting so-called ‘weaker’ cases in front of a jury.  www.thejusticegap.com