Peter Csemiczky writes for HEPI think tank on Office for Students’ sexual misconduct policy

Serious and General Crime partner Peter Csemiczky has written for the Higher Education Policy Institute think tank about the Office for Students’ proposals on university sexual misconduct.

Peter’s article gives a criminal defence solicitor’s perspective on the OfS’s new rules on how universities should address allegations of sexual misconduct made against students.

The OfS, Peter writes, may be acting laudably but there is an “absence of any meaningful, binding universal procedures dictating how universities should handle these often complex and sensitive cases.“

He goes on: “the OfS’s failure to provide step-by-step guidance on how these proceedings should properly be run means many universities will struggle to cope when they happen.

“The result will be injustice: potentially for victims of any sexual assault; potentially for the accused individual; most likely for both.”

Peter’s article is available on the HEPI site or as a download below.