The Scottish Parliament Information Centre issued this briefing this week. It discusses the new Scottish Parliamentary Bill which aims to provide a statutory framework for sexual offences.
“At present, sexual offending is prosecuted under a wide range of common law and statutory offences. The Bill seeks to provide a statutory framework for sexual offences, so that most offending of a sexual nature would in future be prosecuted under one of the offences in the Bill. In light of this, the Bill would abolish or repeal a number of existing common law and statutory offences. As well as consolidating much of the existing law on sexual offences in a single statute, the Bill seeks to reform and clarify the law in a number of important areas.”
