UK: Shamed Scottish Judges

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Source: bettinaarndt.substack.com 2/17/26

Across the world, feminist legal academics are bullying politicians and legislators into adopting new measures aimed at increasing rape convictions. The result, year after year, is justice systems increasingly tilted to favour accusers, undermining the right to a fair trial for men, and increasing the likelihood that innocent men will be convicted.

Scotland judges were doing well in this macabre race to the bottom, but now they have suffered a setback. A UK Supreme Court has warned that Scottish courts are violating a defendant’s right to a fair trial. Scottish lawyers are claiming this could mean hundreds of men in prison will be lining up for appeals or possible compensation for false imprisonment.

It isn’t so much the laws which have been at fault but the way Scottish judges are choosing to interpret them – namely by denying juries critical evidence that might have been used to exonerate the accused men.

They have taken rape shield laws, designed to protect the accuser from humiliating questions about their sexual history or character, and used these to exclude evidence critical to an understanding of what actually happened between the two people.

A leading Scottish barrister, Thomas Ross KC, has been outspoken about what is going on there. He’s in a unique position to expose this injustice because, after handling over 100 rape cases, in 2022 he threw in the towel because he felt it was no longer possible to properly defend accused men. “I was just banging my head against…

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Great post provided for us to read! Thank you!

This author has it nailed spot on. This has been happening in the DoD (or DoW if you prefer) for the last 16 years and continues to this day for those in our military. I know of attys who left the business of defending military personnel because of what theses types of folks have done to the military legal system and created such a difficult system to get any sort of fairness while suffering through. It will only get worse before it gets better unless things change in the next 2.5 years rapidly for the better.

Also, Blackstone (of Blackstone’s Commentaries, which everyone here should read) is probably rolling over in his grave because of what she outlined in his beloved country and empire.

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