<p>What actually happens to rape cases in the criminal justice system?</p><br><p>Presented by Dr Candida Saunders, a legal scholar specialising in criminal law and evidence, <strong>Rape on Trial</strong> draws on police and prosecution case files, professionals' insights, and trial observations in real life cases to examine the investigation and prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences in England & Wales in practice.</p><br><p>By looking closely at each stage, at cases that do and don’t make it through the criminal process, we see how decisions are made--how evidence is weighed and assessed, thresholds applied, how cases are filtered out or ultimately prosecuted, and what jury trials in rape cases really look like in practice.</p><br><p>What we see challenges us to reconsider everything we 'know'--everything the mainstream narrative tells us--about rape myths, rape culture, and rape in the criminal process.</p><br><p><strong>Advisory note:</strong> Episodes may include detailed
