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2. R v Johns SA SC Bollen J 26 August 1992.
3. See Edwards Susan Female Sexuality and the Law:A Study of Constructs of Female Sexuality as they Inform Statute and Legal ProcedureMartin Robertson Oxford 1981 51; 126–9. As Edwards discusses, a ‘moral panic’ of false accusation followed media headlines sensationalising a series of assaults in railway carriages in the 19th century.
4. Hale Sir MatthewThe History of the Pleas of the CrownVol 1 Professional Books London 1971 (first published 1736) 635.