“It seems remarkable that if a woman tells a lie when living in permanent fear of being attacked and stabbed she would probably be able to put forward the defence of duress (if that lie tended to pervert the course of justice), but it seems such a defence does not apply if the woman is living in fear of being raped.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 19th March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
