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A suspect of an indictable offence is arrested just outside their home address as they return home. Officers believe evidence of the offence will be found in their home address and that other people may be inside the address, aware of the suspects arrest and will seek to destroy the evidence. A section 18(5) is proposed so the search can be conducted before evidence is destroyed. Would this be lawful, as whilst the search is necessary for the effective investigation, the suspect actually isn’t required at the place to be searched and it could leave us open to challenge?
The male suspect and female complainant are in a relationship. The suspect asks the complainant for sex, but she refuses. The suspect then tells her that if she doesn’t have sex with him, he will throw her out (effectively make her homeless). The complainant agrees to have sex with him but only because she does not want to be homeless; and she actively takes part in sexual intercourse with him. Is this rape?
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