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From PA:

 

Young men need to be sure that a woman has consented to sex to avoid being accused of rape, a new campaign by the Home Office will warn.

The campaign comes amid low conviction rates for rape cases in England and Wales.

A Home Office spokeswoman said today: ?We are launching an awareness campaign on March 14 to help tackle rape by educating young men about the need to gain consent before having sex.?

The campaign will begin with two radio advertisements, followed on March 20 with magazine advertisements and posters in men?s washrooms in urban pubs and clubs, the spokeswoman said.

She said the issue of consent was central to the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which stated that a person must agree to sex by choice and have the freedom and capacity to make a choice.

?Giving consent is active not passive, and it?s up to everyone to make sure that their partner agrees to sexual activity,? she said.

Solicitor General Mike O?Brien said the Home Office was also considering a change in the rape laws to require juries to decide whether a woman who had consumed alcohol was too drunk to give her consent.

Mr O?Brien said that redrafting the law would stop cases being thrown out by judges and increase the number of convictions.

He said: ?It may be that the legislation needs some clarification, because these sorts of mistakes shouldn?t be being made.

?I do think that there have been cases in which some extremely well-qualified judges and barristers have taken a view on the law which was not the intention of Parliament.?

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