Oral answer to question provided on Monday, 12 March 2007 in the House of Lords, by Lord Goldsmith (Labour).

Crime: Rape

Answer: My Lords, the thrust of my noble friend’s question is exactly the same as the point that he made earlier. I have indicated what the Government’s view is and has been for a long time. I do not know what the implications have been for Dr Falkowski; I hear what my noble friend says. I very much hope that the fact that in a trial the jury found that the allegations were wholly false means that people around him will have accepted his innocence and welcomed him back within their community.

This is an answer to the Oral question asked on Monday, 12 March 2007 by Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour).

Question: My Lords, my noble and learned friend referred to the imprisonment of Marchese as if that were the application of justice in this case. What about justice for Falkowski? He has been the subject of a huge injustice, because he lost friends, income and reputation. What are we going to do about people such as that, who believe that they should be entitled to anonymity in exactly the same way as women are? Their anonymity was lost as a result of legislation introduced in the late 1980s.

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