Comment: To be fair, there were a number of statements made by former Justice Robin Camp which, taken as a whole, were deemed to be misconduct. That particular statement, however, has been used out of context. It sounds as if it's an admonishment of the complainant, when it was simply the judge trying to get at the specific facts of the alleged crime.

But your analogy illuminates some of the inconsistencies in this matter. Judges are clearly held to a different standard when they conduct sexual assault trials. The straight-forward question you posed in your example of a car theft trial would raise no eyebrows at all. Yet in a sexual assault trial the consequences are plain to see.

The message being hammered into judges is clear: whether you think the female sexual assault complainant is credible or not, you must question her with kid gloves.