...treated with particular care. For sexual offences the proposition can be traced at least to Hale36 that: It is an accusation easily to be made and hard to...proved; and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho' never so innocent. " Law Com No 202 (see n 2 above) para 2.5ff * Pleas of the Crown I 635 As for...

...or else be corroborated; and others, remembering the admonition of Lord Chief Justice Hale that rape "is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...proved; and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent,"14 reverse convictions of sex crimes regularly when there is no corroboration...

...genders. The contention of English legal commentator Lord Hale that the charge of rape "is easily made, hard to be proved and harder to be defended by the party accused, notwithstanding his innocence" captured the tone of most southern appellate opinions in the nineteenth...

...proposition can be traced at least to Hale 36 that: It is an accusation easily to be made and bard to be proved; and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho' never so innocent. " Law Com No 202 (see n 2 above) para 2.5ff 36 Pleas of the Crown I 635 As...

...Hale's cautionary dictum that although rape was 'a most detestable crime', 'it must be remembered, that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to...be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent'.35 The conditions which had to be fulfilled in a successful rape prosecution were stringent....

...assumption that women lie. Seventeenth century British jurist Sir Matthew Hale instructed juries that rape is an accusation "easily to be made and hard to be...proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho' never so innocent" (Estrich 1987, 5). Later, nineteenth century behavioral scientists, such as...

...response to the longstanding suspicion of rape victims. As Matthew Hale put it three centuries ago: "Rape is ... an accusation easily to be made and hard to...proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent."4 But the problem is more fundamental than that. . . . At its simplest, the...

...but that the two - patriarchy and militarism are interdependent and mutually supportive.*74 [RJape is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent.675 Law has failed to protect women against abuse. Domestic law and practice influence international...

...jurisprudence tor more than two hundred and fifty years. "It must be remembered," Hale wrote of rape, "that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to...proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent."56 He supplemented this observation by recital of a story from a Sussex court...

...In the eighteenth century, "the English Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale warned that rape is a charge 'easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho' never so innocent.'"27 Justice Male's word came to codify certain already existing practices in...