ABSTRACT
In a major new consolidation of the law, the Sexual Offences Act 2003 repealed almost all of the Sexual Offences Acts 1956 and 1967, the Indecency with Children Act 1960, and the Sex Offenders Act 1997. In their place it establishes a new law of rape and sexual assault, a new raft of sexual offences against vulnerable persons (children and the mentally disabled), a dramatically expanded range of offences dealing with prostitution, child pornography, sexual trafficking, and a number of completely new offences, including new crimes of voyeurism and ‘grooming’.
