Proactive release – Sexual Violence Legislation Bill: approval for introduction [pdf, 1 MB]
...sexual history with the defendant. The restrictions will also apply to evidence about the complainant’s sexual ‘disposition’, which might include, for example, fantasies recorded in a diary. These changes will help to ensure a complainant’s consent is not inferred just from the fact they may have thought about, or consented at a different time, to sexual contact in the same way or situation. RE LE AS ED B Y TH E PA RL IA MEN TA RY U ND ER -S EC RE TA RY T O T...