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Hosted by Dr Candida Saunders · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 22 episodes
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What actually happens to rape cases in the criminal justice system in England & Wales? Presented by Dr Candida Saunders, a legal scholar specialising in criminal law, evidence, and procedure, Rape on Trial is a legally informed, criminal justice documentary podcast examining the investigation and prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences. Through a series of individual case studies drawing on real-life police and prosecution case-files and Crown Court trial observations, we see how criminal justice actually works in an adversarial legal system, and how it doesn't. By looking closely at each stage of the criminal process, at cases that both do and don’t result in prosecution and conviction, we see discretionary pre-trial decision-making in action--how evidence is weighed and assessed, evidential thresholds applied, how courtroom advocates marshal evidence and present their case, how trial judges manage cases and direct juries. What
Dr Candida Saunders hosts Rape on Trial, a society show with 22 episodes published.
What does criminal justice look like in rape and serious sexual offences? Who decides whether a case proceeds? How? What happens at trial? Rape on Trial is documentary podcast taking you inside the criminal justice syste
What does criminal justice look like in rape and serious sexual offences? Who decides whether a case proceeds? How? What happens at trial? Rape on Trial is documentary podcast taking you inside the criminal justice syste
We're back in court for the second part of Lionel's trial on two counts of sexual assault of a child under 13. This episode sees the remainder of the prosecution's case and the beginning of the defence case as Lionel tak
We're back in court for the second part of Lionel's trial on two counts of sexual assault of a child under 13. This episode sees the remainder of the prosecution's case and the beginning of the defence case as Lionel tak
Rape on Trial is a fly-on-the-wall style documentary podcast giving listeners a unique and detailed insight into the real-life workings of the criminal process, criminal law, and proceedings. Through a series of in-depth
Rape on Trial is a fly-on-wall documentary-style podcast for listeners interested in the real-life workings of the criminal process, criminal law and proceedings. Through a series of in-depth case-studies drawing on case
Rape on Trial is a fly-on-wall documentary-style podcast for listeners interested in the real-life workings of the criminal process, criminal law and proceedings. Through a series of in-depth case-studies drawing on case
Rape on Trial is a fly-on-wall documentary-style podcast for listeners interested in the real-life workings of the criminal process, criminal law and proceedings. Through a series of in-depth case-studies drawing on case
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Rape on Trial is a fly-on-wall documentary-style podcast for those interested in the real-life workings of the criminal process, criminal law and proceedings. Through a series of in-depth case-studies drawing on case fil
Rape on Trial is a fly-on-wall documentary-style podcast for listeners interested in the real-life workings of the criminal process, criminal law and proceedings. Through a series of in-depth case-studies drawing on case
Rape on Trial is a fly-on-wall documentary-style podcast for listeners interested in the real-life workings of the criminal process, criminal law and proceedings. Through a series of case-studies drawing on (anonymised)
Rape on Trial is a fly-on-wall documentary-style podcast for listeners interested in the real-life workings of the criminal process, criminal law and proceedings. This episode sees us back in the public gallery for anoth
Want to see for yourself how the criminal justice system works in rape and serious sex offences? This episode sees us back in the public gallery of a Crown Court somewhere in England and Wales for the the final couple of
Want to see for yourself how the criminal process really works in cases of rape and serious sexual offences? This episode of Rape on Trial sees us back in the public gallery of Crown Court for the third but not, it turns
Episode 9 of Rape on Trial sees us back in Crown Court for the second day of Faruq's rape trial. Plunging straight back into cross-examination, the defence sets out to problematise, not the complainant’s credibility, but
As Rape on Trial continues its examination of the investigation and prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences in the UK criminal justice system, we are back in Crown Court for our fourth rape trial. Faruq, a taxi d
Episode 7 sees us back in Crown Court for the conclusion of Dean’s trial. The kind of case the mainstream says shouldn’t succeed: an intimate partner relationship rape; one person’s word against another’s; no corroborati
Episode 6 of Rape on Trial sees us back in Court 2 as Dean's rape trial continues. Dean stands accused of rape and sexual assault against Anya, his girlfriend/partner at the material time. We pick up where we left off in
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Rape on Trial is hosted by Dr Candida Saunders. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 22 episodes.
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