Solicitor Frank Buttimer on sex crimes, consent, and when clients realise the game is up 

Solicitor Frank Buttimer at the Central Criminal Court, Anglesea Street, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

The vast majority of sexually motivated crimes today turn on the issue of consent, according to one of the country’s leading defence solicitors. 

Frank Buttimer, who practices in Cork, and has been involved in some of the highest profile criminal trials in the state. Buttimer says that in some instances it can be on a “knife edge” whether a jury will determine whether consent was given in a sexual act.