No surprise there, John. It's the use of subtle language, as demonstrated by your quote above, that really has an affect on people's judgements. They could be soon sat on a jury, asking themselves "although it seems like she is falsely accusing this chap... I know I read recently that hardly any, if any, women ever make false accusations..."

Here's a rather brilliant line from the article:

"They said it was hard to see how such a register could separate malicious and false allegations from cases where there simply was not enough evidence to proceed"

that's like saying it's hard to separate rape cases from those where sex was consensual. Indeed it isn't always easy, but it still has to be done doesn't it? Just like with false allegations it's actually very easy to do in the more obvious cases

Statistics aside, the idea that women make false rape allegations makes sense from a motive standpoint. It's an easy, low risk way to destroy someone's life. People (especially lovers) are motivated all the time to destroy other people's lives, why should this issue be any different?

Perhaps the issue with some feminists is that they believe women do not have it in them to want to destroy someone's life.