Lady Lavinia Nourse; Early labour; Chile’s constitution

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Lady Lavinia Nourse is calling for those accused of child abuse to be granted anonymity until charged. Speaking exclusively to Woman’s Hour just over a month after she was cleared of child sex abuse, the 77-year-old widow of the High Court judge Sir Martin Nourse was cleared of all 17 counts of historical child sex abuse involving a boy under the age of 12. In her first broadcast interview, she tells Emma Barnett what she wants to achieve by speaking out, and the trauma of the ordeal. Emma is also joined by Lady Nourse’s legal representative Sandra Paul from Kingsley Napley.

A new study on a risk model that may improve the prediction of preterm birth has just been published. Researchers say predicting the signs and symptoms of preterm labour make it challenging to diagnose - and often times this leads to unnecessary treatment such as extra tests, bed rest or even hospitalisation which can be both common and costly. Lead author, Dr Sarah Stock from the University of Edinburgh hopes it's going to improve decision making for women and clinicians around what to do if someone has some signs and symptoms of preterm labour.

This week in an historic first, 58-year-old Elisa Loncon from Chile’s indigenous Mapuche people was chosen to lead the drafting of the country’s new constitution . The new constitution will replace the one inherited from Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, blamed for the high levels of inequality, social injustice, and high cost of living that sparked deadly protests across the country in 2019 and beyond. Constanza Hola, a Chilean journalist working for the BBC World Service, joins Emma to discuss.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Frankie Tobi

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0:41.0	Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. begins today's program. Lady Lavinian Norse was grieving for her husband, the
0:54.8	senior judge Sir Martin Norse when she was accused and then subsequently charged
0:58.6	with 17 counts of sex abuse involving a boy under the age of 12. Just over a month ago, age 77,
1:06.2	she was cleared of all charges after a three and a half year ordeal and a two week
1:11.2	trial that she says has left her life in pieces.
1:14.9	Her lawyer, who I'm speaking to later in the programme, says the Crown Prosecution Service
1:19.1	did not assess the evidence rigorously enough.
1:22.3	Lavinia Nause's case came in the wake of the Jimmy Saval scandal.
1:26.0	The fallout saw a slew of high profile figures being falsely accused, named, but without any charges brought.
1:32.0	Today, in her first broadcast interview
1:34.9	Lavinia talks about what it was like to face her accuser in court and the impact
1:39.8	that the allegations have had on her life. She's decided to talk to me here on
1:44.6	woman's hour because she wants to try and make sure this never happens to anyone else.
1:49.6	She told me how the ordeal began. I had been in London and the accuser, if that's what the word I suppose I have to use,
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