Title IX-Style Campus Rape Investigations Are Coming to the UK

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'A wave of university rape investigations echoing those brought in under Title IX in the USA is due to be rolled out in Britain.

New guidelines published last week recommend that universities investigate and punish students over alleged sexual offences – even if they are cleared by a court.

A lengthy report by the Universities UK and law firm Pinsent Masons said that institutions should appoint their own investigators and carry out extra discipline after the legal process has ended.

It recommends using a significantly lower standard of evidence than criminal courts, and specifically advises universities to pursue proceedings both when the alleged victim has dropped the case, when prosecutors have dropped it through lack of evidence, and even if the accused stood trial and was cleared.

The report admits that internal university processes will inevitably have less information to go on than a criminal proceeding – and also recommends a lower standard of proof (“51%” instead of “beyond all reasonable doubt”).'