‘Urgent legal changes needed to protect victims of image-based sexual abuse.’

The Ministry of Justice launched a Law Commission review of the law around the non-consensual taking, making and sharing of sexual images last week.

Justice Minister Paul Maynard and Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright have asked the Law Commission to examine whether current legislation is fit to tackle new and evolving types of abusive and offensive communications, including image-based abuse, amid concerns it has become easier to create and distribute sexual images of people online without their permission.