Clause 10 - Sexual activity with a child
Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]
3:00 pm
Ms Vera Baird (Redcar, Labour)
Another point that I sought to make this morning, although perhaps I did not articulate it well enough, was that I would not have thought it a bad principle to introduce into criminal
law the notion that a sub-13-year-old can consent, because that may have all sorts of knock-on effects in defending other kinds of case. That was a sub-text in what I said.