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Senate amends consent provisions in sexual assault bill but rejects defence bar’s plea to drop ‘reverse disclosure’

By Cristin Schmitz ( October 31, 2018, 11:44 AM EDT) -- In a win for women’s advocates, the Senate has amended the government’s contentious sexual assault law reform package to remove unconsciousness as a specified indicator of incapacity to consent, but has retained an expansion of the rape shield that the defence bar and civil libertarians contend imposes “reverse disclosure” on people accused of sex crimes. . . .

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