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I am not directly familiar with the UK system but from everything I have seen, it has the same problems:
The defense against rape accusations is "she was a slut". And when things are this institutionalized? You can get plenty of people who will gladly attest that the plaintiff came onto them too because they know that if the dominoes start toppling...
And in the off chance she gets justice AND comes out with any dignity? She is not officially on the industry shitlist because that would be wrong... But her career is more or less over. Because the rapists don't want to hire her for obvious reasons. But even the "normal" people will be wary of "What if she decides something we do is bad?".
No. The key to shit like this is to get the public shining a light on this first. Rather than going into a dark room and randomly spraying a bit of bug spray.
I remember coworkers talking about metoo and saying things like that or "what if she decides to report me for something ".
I always responded with "if you ever have to wonder if an action could be reported to the police, than maybe you should not do that, and if you are worried that a woman will report you, don't hang out with that person".
I never understood how this ever could be a worry.
In which jurisdiction?
In every jurisdiction with misogynist judges.
Judges do fuck shit but I doubt they like having their court cases over turned for failure to supervise counsel who violate rules of evidence.