Submitted on Saturday 12th September 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Formally ban the Portsmouth Defence to further legally protect uk trans people.
This petition calls for Parliament to formally ban use of the Portsmouth defence as while it is obsolete, it is too big a risk to leave usable in our courts.
The Portsmouth defence is defined as justifying “assault brought on by an alleged sexual approach by the victim or another person which so angered them that they assaulted the individual concerned”. The Portsmouth defence, whilst now obsolete, is too big a risk to leave - with only CPS guidance advising against its use, a pre-emptive ban must be put into law.
The use of the Portsmouth defence has already been formally banned elsewhere. The UK should follow these examples.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/326717
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