Dr. Ann Olivarius

Founding partner. US and UK employment, discrimination and sexual assault/abuse law. KC Hons. Feminist. Find me on Bluesky. She/Her.

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

Big news from us - and we are preparing to file 21 additional complaints in the coming weeks.

There's never a bad time to stand up for survivors.

You can read more here too: https://t.co/eJ4y7DwmqM

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[The Cassandra Centre @CassandraCentre]

Women are told to report rape. To put their lives under a microscope. To endure years of investigations, cross-examination and trauma in the name of justice.

Victims don’t get an early release from what happened to them. Why should the people who inflicted it? What a disgrace.

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

The Tate Brothers have been arrested and will be extradited to the UK. Finally.

In the UK the brothers enjoyed deferential indifference from prosecutors and police, in the US open arms from MAGA.

Read @helenlewis' excellent explainer:
https://t.co/wu9Gel1MOd

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

Heide Blake's reporting clearly lit a fire under the @CPSUK (who in 2019 let the Tate Brothers go because of "an ounce of doubt").

It really shouldn't take a journalist to shame prosecutors and police into action, 11 years after the first complaint.
https://t.co/JaTRPyqVT2

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

NOW there are 59 charges against the Tate Brothers, robust enough for an extraordinary extradition.

The @CPSUK and @HertsPolice have some explaining to do about dropping all charges in 2019.
Imagine the pain avoided if they had this zeal back then.
https://t.co/XQYwGMQmp7

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

@cathynewman @SkyNews This is an "improvement" only because the bar is on the floor. The girls will have spent more time on the trial than the boys likely will in detention. How is that in any way fair, that the victims pay so much for justice, for a crime we keep telling them is "atrocious"?

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

The girls will still have spent more time in trial than the boys likely will spend in detention.

And they had to wait for the excruciating appeal process. And the boys will appeal again.

This is the "improvement" that a broken system can muster.
https://t.co/iSDWPTmvVY

[Toula Drimonis @ToulasTake]

An important op-ed. The % of ppl (mostly men) debating dangers of incels in re: to my column last wk.
“Misogynistic violence is not the consequence of poorly treated mental illness. It’s also the result of a world view in which women’s freedom is experienced as an injury to men.”

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

Makes sense. Because when a girl is raped by a boy with a bad background, it harms her less, right?

Just like men who kill women they know, in their own homes, are given lighter sentences. Presumably the women are less dead?

When will women matter?

https://t.co/l5bP2jLY5R

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

Where can a rape victim go for justice and just a semblance of dignity?

The US military courts treated Sarah Steel horribly - but Cambridgeshire police didn't even bother to contact her and an officer just shared "intimate pictures" of a detained woman.
https://t.co/jB6accCPaU

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

"Mr Carman told police he had agreed to pay the teenager 1,000 baht (£23) for sexual services, but that they had an argument when they returned to his apartment and he offered only 500 baht."

What is a 17-year old girl's life worth? Apparently £13.
https://t.co/4ktllKVFOA

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

What I want for all American women, including the ones whose politics I whole-heartedly despise and oppose:

That their work is evaluated based on their own talent, skills and effort, not creepily patriarchal psycho-sexual dynamics.
https://t.co/kfievxFE0H

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

We're just scratching the surface of this.

Because it's very hard to believe that these 13 men have led blameless lives - except for that one time they decided to visit Manchester's own Dominique Pelicot.

https://t.co/CbD3VoOHxx

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

Strange how "fixing a broken system" invariably means women will bear the brunt of it.

How can we ask rape victims to go through a gruelling criminal process w extremely low rate of conviction, when those few who ARE convicted are let out early?
https://t.co/jb0dEE7kVA

[Laura Richards BSc MSc MBPsS @thecrimeanalyst]

Oh Hi @jimmyfallon Here’s a reminder of the FACTS: In 2024 Conor McGregor was found legally responsible for the rape of Nikita Hand.

Nikita had to have a tampon surgically removed. A paramedic who examined her testified that she had never before seen someone with that intensity of bruising.  

The jury found McGregor liable after hearing a detailed examination of physical evidence, witness testimonies, and the impact of the rape on Hand’s life, including psychological and financial distress. Nikita was awarded damages.

McGregor appealed. He lost his final legal challenge to the Supreme Court of Ireland in December 2025, solidifying the jury’s verdict that he sexually assaulted Nikita Hand. The court denied his appeal on all grounds, allowing the initial High Court ruling—which ordered him to pay €248,000 in damages—to stand.

Shame on you Jimmy Fallon for platforming a known r@pist. What’s an insult to Nikita and all women 💀💣🤬

#JimmyFallon #ConorMcGregor #Accountability #CrimeAnalyst

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

This "logic" props up in courtrooms again and again -a man is found guilty of violence but SOMEHOW, the court assumes that the woman who's strangled, beaten, kicked or punched is free to consent or to say no.

It's as if they think women don't feel pain.

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

"In Wulfson’s case, the jury found him guilty of strangling Steele, but not guilty of penetrating her vagina without her consent."

Did she freely consent after she passed out from the strangulation? Or just before, as she was fighting to breathe?
https://t.co/7IyiMlx7kG

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

"Very secure in themselves", "fiercely loyal, enthusiastic and reliable." - as much as this article celebrates these guys, there's a sting:
"always thrilled to come to heel".

As if men can't be enthusiastically in love without risking emasculation.
https://t.co/AhPpZKyOrt

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

"In Wulfson’s case, the jury found him guilty of strangling Steele, but not guilty of penetrating her vagina without her consent."

Did she freely consent after she passed out from the strangulation? Or just before, as she was fighting to breathe?
https://t.co/7IyiMlx7kG

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

It's staggering just how unjust and incompetent the Family Courts can be, so very, very often to the detriment of women and children.

Thank you, @DrProudman for fighting this strangely stubborn and structural injustice.

[Proudmans @proudmanslaw]

Proudmans is pleased to have successfully overturned findings of parental alienation made against a mother, with the High Court allowing the appeal on all seven grounds.

https://t.co/1NnK9QEZR7