[2011] NICA 47

Unlike the Sexual Offences Act 1956, the Criminal Law Amendment Act (Northern Ireland) 1923 provided a reliable statutory framework for the necessary implication that a defence based upon belief as to age was not available to a charge under s.4 of that Act.

CA (NI) (Morgan LCJ, Higgins LJ, Coghlin LJ)

08/09/2011