The SOA 2003 now also recognizes the concept of informed consent. Informed consent is an agreement which a person makes after getting to know all the relevant facts. This means a person will only consent when all the facts are become known. For example, a patient consenting to a medical procedure. Informed consent is demonstrated in the case of Dica. This is where a defendant found out that he had HIV positive but still continued to have unprotected sexual intercourse with two victims (who were not aware of defendants infected status). This case indicates that informed consent is involved as although both victim consented to the sexual intercourse they would not have consented if known about the defendant infected status. Therefore, to point
