Victims of sexual abuse (or of any other criminal offence) should be
complaining to the Police, not to the person's employer or a third party. If
the complaint received by the British Council was of this nature, then the
complainant should have been advised to contact the Police either directly
or with the assistance of an appropriate agency (e.g. social care provider,
womens' refuge, childline).
--
Graham Smith
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> Subject: RE: Other nations, Other "rules"
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> There are always two sides to any story, but what would the
> alternative have
> been? To do nothing at all? Or to force the complainant to
> reveal herself
> when she was not prepared to put herself through the torment of
> progressing
> the matter any further? Anyone who has been the victim of sexual abuse
> (which, for the records, was not the situation in this case) will
> testify to
> the fact that the ordeal of seeing a case through can be more terrifying
> than the abuse itself.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Smith [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 July 2003 19:13
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: Other nations, Other "rules"
>
>
>
> Antoinette Carter of the British Council said:
>
> > We had a case here where a student had made some quite
> > serious allegations against a member of teaching staff,
> > which we passed on to the school in question.
>
> How terribly unfair to the person being complained about! A civil
> complaint,
> lent considerable weight by the fact that it has come to the employer's
> attention through the British Council, has been made. Some people
> will think
> "no smoke without fire" and one person's whole career may be
> jeopardised yet
> without that person being able to do a single thing about it.
>
> Such a process denies the person complained about the opportunity
> to sue for
> libel. It is surely against natural justice?
>
> --
> Graham Smith
>
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