Yesterday, Spiked published a highly controversial article about Operation Yewtree by Hardwicke Chambers barrister Barbara Hewson. In it, Hewson argued that the age of consent should be lowered to 13 to stop the persecution of old men like Stuart Hall, and suggested that sex assault victims shouldn’t get anonymity. Unsurprisingly, a storm has ensued…
There’s full coverage of the response to Hewson’s article on Google News, with this piece on the BBC, published last night, most worth reading.
Certainly, as legal journalist Ben Wheway put it this morning on Twitter, the affair “raises interesting questions on whether firms/chambers should always approve content by their members”.
