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• The other side of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

  14th Nov 2019

  Tom Percy QC shares his concerns about the perceived shift in community attitudes towards a presumption of guilt for individuals charged with historical sexual abuse offences, particularly where an alleged offence took place in an institutional setting. He contends that an accused person should have an unconditional right to elect a trial by judge alone.