Sexual Offenses and Consent

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-88

  Brett, Nathan ^a  

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EID: 85007569697     PISSN: 08418209     EISSN: 20564260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0841820900001697     Document Type: Review

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1. The best known of these problems is undoubtedly the one raised by the Morgan case, In which it was held that an honest belief in the complainant's consent eliminates the mental element of the offense-whether or not this belief was reasonable.
2. British case DPP v. Morgan, (1975) 2 All. E.R. 347.
3. The comparable Canadian case is Pappajohn v. the Queen [1980], 2 S.C.R. 120.
4. E.M. Curley, "Excusing Rape" (1976) 5 Phil. & Publ. Aff. 5
5. Arthur & Shaw, Readings in the Philosophy of Law, 1st ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1984) 367;
6. L. Bienen, "Mistakes" (1978) 7 Phil. & Publ. Affairs. 224;
7. M. T. Thornton, "Rape and Mens Rea" (1982) Can. J. of Phil., Supplementary Vol. VIII, New Essays in Ethics and Public Policy, eds., K. Nielsen & S.C. Patten 119.
8. Editors, "Forcible and Statutory Rape: A Review of the Operations and Objectives of the Consent Standard" (1952) 62 Yale L. J. 54-55.
9. A.W. Bryant, "The Issue of Consent in the Crime of Sexual Assault" (1989) 68 Can. Bar Rev. 94-108.
10. RW. Young, The Law of Consent (Sidney: Law Book, 1986), 7-9.
11. D. Stuart, Rejects this view in Canadian Criminal Law, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 1987), 469.
12. Notice that die general acceptance of this view of consent would dramatically alter the direction of medical practice, democratic theory, and much else.
13. J. Kleinig, "The Ethics of Consent", in Nielsen & Patten, eds., 93-96.
14. Regina v. Olugboja (1981), 3 W.L.R. 592.
15. D. Stuart in Canadian Criminal Law, 470
16. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, J. O. Urmson, ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965) 1.
17. J. R. Searle, Speech Acts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969) Ch. 2;
18. W. P. Alston, The Philosophy of Language (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964) ch. 2.
19. Anne Bayefsky, Legal Theory Meets Legal Practice (Edmonton: Academic Printing and Publishing, 1988) 253-57.
20. A. John Simmons in "Tacit Consent and Political Obligation," (1976) 5 Phil. & Publ. Aff. 274.
21. J. Kleinig, "The Ethics of Consent," 8-114.
22. Sartre, Being and Nothingness, H. Barnes trans. (New York: Washington Square, 1966), 96.
23. Chapter III of Rape: The Price of Coercive Sexuality, L. Clark & D. Lewis (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1971).
24. Susan Estridge, The role of resistance in relation to rape and compares US law with that of commonwealth jurisdictions in "Rape" (1986) 95 Yale L. J. 6;
25. Arthur & Shaw, Readings in the Philosophy of Law, 2nd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993), 362.
26. J. H. Bogart, "Reconsidering Rape: Rethinking the Conceptual Foundations of Rape Law" (1995) 7:1 Can. J. of L. & Juris. 159
27. Bogart defends the view that the harm of rape or sexual assault is better dealt with when rape is considered non-consenting rather than non-voluntary sex, 162-71.
28. This (reversed) slogan puts the matter inaccurately, of course. The point is that, on the attitudinal account, consent is separable from (and could be opposed to) the meaning of what is said.