UK Supreme Court Agrees with Justice for Innocent Men Scotland Campaign on Overly-Stringent Rape Trials
LONDON – 29th June 2026 — The Justice for Innocent Men Scotland (JIMS) campaign advocates for legal reforms in sex crime trials, and recently staged a protest outside the Scottish Parliament and the Supreme Courts in Edinburgh. The campaign is largely made up of women who have personally felt the trauma of alleged false allegations and wrongful convictions, often involving their spouses.
JIMS assert that the Scottish justice system is failing men accused of sexual offences, and this was confirmed in 2026 when the UK Supreme Court ruled that Scottish courts must modify their approach to admitting evidence in sexual offence trials, because overly rigid “rape shield” laws were found to breach a defendant’s right to a fair trial under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. https://accused.scot/supreme-court-ruling-274-275-scotland/
JIMS specifically campaign against what they view as miscarriages of justice driven by the Moorov Doctrine, which govern evidence regarding a complainant’s sexual history. https://www.jimsscotland.org/. Originating from the landmark case of Moorov v HM Advocate in 1930, it establishes that multiple distinct, single-witness incidents can mutually corroborate each other if they are closely connected in time, character, and circumstance to form a single course of conduct.
The campaign also attracted controversy when a JIMS director was invited to speak at Abertay University in Dundee. The university investigated the guest lecture and ultimately defended it as appropriate, though it caused significant uproar and student protests, including Abertay’s Dr Stuart Waiton having his offices daubed with graffiti and other attempts at intimidation. The investigation found that none of the complaints came from anyone who was actually in attendance.
In October 2025, Waiton invited JIMS operations director Marsha Sturgeon to give a guest lecture titled ‘Victim’ Feminism and Trauma Informed Approach to his fourth-year criminology students. The talk criticized “feminist lobbying” and changes to Scotland’s corroboration and evidentiary laws, which JIMS claims have created a “prosecution culture”. Here is Sturgeon recently speaking on ETI TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etWaP9ke8n8&t=5s&pp=ygUebWFyc2hhIHN0dXJnZW9uIHNlYW4gYncgcGFya2Vy
Dr Michael Naughton’s Empowering the Innocent (ETI) organisation has also actively supported JIMS’ street presence, praising their ability to draw dedicated crowds to demonstrations to make the issue of wrongful convictions impossible for politicians to ignore. https://www.jimsscotland.org/how-you-can-help/
In response to JIMS’s claims that evidence rules are unfairly stacked against men, media-friendly rape campaigner Ellie Wilson stated to the BBC that trials remain a traumatising ordeal for victims. She argued that conviction rates for sexual offences remain lower than for any other crime type, proving the balance has not in fact shifted too far against the accused. Wilson herself was arrested and charged with domestic abuse-related offences in April 2026.
That Wilson managed to get herself onto multiple daytime television sofas to complain about the ‘trauma’ of being made to give evidence in court, while the Supreme Court upholds complaints that those same rape trials are being unjust to men, speaks volumes about the state of this area in the UK right now. While laws are slightly different in Scotland compared to England and Wales, the Supreme Court needs to urgently recognise exactly the same legal-dominance-feminist led corruption is happening in courts closer to home.
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