Clause 13 - Offences relating to intimate photographs or films and voyeurism

Part of Criminal Justice Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 2:45 pm ar 11 Ionawr 2024.

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One of the challenges in adopting a definition of “intimate” that includes, for example, the removal of a hijab is that we are creating a criminal offence of that image being shared. It would not be obvious to anyone in this country who received a picture of a woman they did not know with her hair exposed that they were viewing an intimate image and committing a criminal offence.[Official Report, 1 March 2024, Vol. 746, c. 6MC.] (Correction) The Law Commission has made very similar points in relation to showing the legs of a woman who is a Hasidic Jew, or showing her without her wig on. This would be grotesquely humiliating for that victim, but that would not be completely obvious to any member of the public who might receive such an image of them.