two years.
Jane Asher was judged a bad wife. The marriage licence became a licence to kill but only for 'wronged husband'. Two years earlier, a Glasgow woman prison sentence for killing drunken nel husband.
The judge said, "There various execents open to a woman regularly subjected LO. ment by her husband, but a licence to kill was not one of them'.
For these judges, woman's Diace Is passive, uncomplaining servant in the home.
Women who try for ColiCulle different get what they deserve.
These attitudes to Gay pride march 1979 'Your conduct' said Judge Mars-Jones 'was exwomen are brutally revealWomen, ed in pamphlet on legal titudes to women published by the National Council for Civil Liberties.
While Thatcher parades the virtues family life, the NCCL reports the single category of murder Is or a spouse or conabltant. Eighty per cent of the Violence against women is often treated as a private affair • part of a woman's lot. In 1982, woman wanted to divorce her violent husband. The judge turned this down 'Before such assaults are said to inflict exceptional hardship' said, 'there must be something out of the ordinary in what happened'.
trials expose RaDd some of the degradations Rape in malllage recognised most cases the woman is in effect put on trial. assumed she doesn't know her own mind, untrustworthy and complicit because of her attitude or lifestyle.
A Cambridge woman finally submitted to a rape initial struggle ana after making it clear she didn't sex. She was Wall! terrified of being injured killed Judge Wild aquitted the rapist.
'Women who say. no do not always mean no' he said. 'It is not a question of saying no, tion of how she says it, and she SHOWS makes clear. she doesn't want she only has to keep her legs shut.
She would not get it without force and there would be marks of force being used.' But if a woman puts up When guardsman Holdsworth sexually assaulted a 7 year old woman, he in horrendous injuries. Rape Justice Slynn remarked, 'It is probable that this girl would have been less severely injured if in fact she had submitted to rape Guardsman Holdsworth had his three year prison sentence quashec by Lord Justice Roskill 'The best thing you can do to make amends' he said 'is to go back to your unit and continue to serve your country• Serving their country, and the class that runs it comes first for these "learned" judges. That means treating women as second class citizens.
The NCCL pamphlet • The shell Not Gri Team shit Hot ta 9 Tur shall tes I Tha State i 20 gives graphic evidence of the degradation and violence faced by thousands of wollicil mendations centre on male But recomdominance lega system, training of judges and some legal reforms.
While this may limit the worse excesses, treatment of women has roots deep economic social conditions which need No progressive policy ra judginan esomen • Judging bs Polly Pattullo. A study of attitudes that rule the legal system. Tubirdes, London se?! Can you think of any
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IN 1981, Gordon Asher Killed his wife. They had quarrelled about her relationships with other men. His six month prison sentence was suspended for
tremely callous and I suspect calculated, but I have come to the conclusion that having spent 10 weeks in prison and having had the remorse which I am told you feel, you have suffered enough'.
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