Penney Lewis teaches criminal evidence and medical law at the School of Law, King's College London. She holds postgraduate law degrees from the University of Toronto, King's College London, and Columbia University, and clerked for Iacobucci J. at the Supreme Court of Canada. She is qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor in Ontario. From September 2007, she will be Professor of Law at King's College London.
`...a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex legal, psychological, and familial/social dynamics that undergird this highly important area of criminal law...one is hard pressed to identify a rival publication in terms of the depth of the analysis, the rigour of the scholarship and the far-reaching nature of the proposed legislative and practical modifications of our existing practices...it cannot be doubted that delayed prosecutions of alleged sexual violence in childhood pose formidable problems for the criminal process. This excellent text will prove invaluable in assisting the Bench and Bar in grappling with the many difficult issues that arise and the wealth of references serves to orient future research efforts. Advocates who ignore the many lessons found in Delayed Prosecution for Childhood Sexual Abuse do so at the peril of their cases and of justice, in the ultimate analysis.' Criminal Law Quarterly `... extremely thorough and perceptive. [Lewis] carefully compares and contrasts the differing approaches taken in different states and tracks the developments between and within states...' Judith masson, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice