Parents of young men facing conduct panels over assaults are raising the stakes by bringing barristers to them, academics say
, experts say female students often do not want to go to the police, fearing delays and traumatising questioning, and knowing only 1% of rape cases end in conviction. Universities say increasing numbers of women are instead turning to them to investigate, leaving institutions wrestling with complex cases, including a rising trend of pornography-inspired strangulation during sex.
He added: “There is a huge inequality here, which is a big issue. Barristers are not cheap, and only certain families can afford them.”A study soon to be published by researchers at Oxford University found that one in four female students at the university had experienced some sort of sexual assault in the preceding year.
Smita Jamdar, a partner at the law firm Shakespeare Martineau who advises universities on sexual assault hearings, said: “There are increasing numbers of students choosing to bring cases of sexual misconduct of all sorts to their university rather than the police, and increasing numbers of very serious allegations.” She added that choking and sadomasochism were now “not uncommon”.
Jamdar said universities had worked hard to encourage reporting of attacks and that this had “really thrown a spanner in the works”.
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