Sentences with phrase «offences of a sexual nature»

Sexual assault which may fall within your criteria of «serious» and all other offences of a sexual nature carry an extreme life - changing stigma and consequences.

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Section 271 of the Criminal Code outlines the offence of sexual assault as an assault that is sexual in nature and violates the sexual integrity of the victim.

The Canada Labour Code defines sexual harassment as «any conduct, comment, gesture, or contact of a sexual nature that is likely to cause offence or humiliation to any employee; or that might, on reasonable grounds, be perceived by that employee as placing a condition of a sexual nature on employment or on any opportunity for training or promotion.»

Looking at the two different aspects of sexual harassment as defined by the Canada Labour Code, more than half of working women in Canada (54 %) say they have experienced conduct, comments, gestures or contact of a sexual nature that caused them offence or humiliation, while three - in - ten (30 %) experienced conduct, comments, gestures or contact of a sexual nature that they perceived as placing a condition of a sexual nature on their employment or on any opportunity they might have for training or promotion.

In the past, mentally challenged victims of sexual offences have been frequently precluded from testifying, not on the ground that they could not relate what happened, but on the ground that they lacked the capacity to articulate in abstract terms the difference between the truth and a lie and the nature of the obligation imposed by promising to tell the truth.

Her opinion relied heavily on the statistics of the pervasive nature of sexual assaults, demonstrating the highly gendered nature of the offence, and emphasized how violence against women was itself a conception of human rights protected by ss.