What’s the difference between the common law offence of wilful exposure and the statutory offence of obscene exposure?The location where the offence might occur is the main difference. Statutory obscene exposure must occur in or within view of a public place.Common law wilful exposure can occur anywhere, provided that the exposure was seen by one …
Month: May 2009
UK police told: delete protesters' photographs
The Times reports that last Thursday the English Court of Appeal ordered the Metropolitan Police to delete photographs of peaceful protesters demonstrating against the arms trade.(The case is Wood v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2009] EWCA Civ 414.)The Times reports the Court's order was stayed for a month to allow the police the …
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UK police told: delete protesters’ photographs
The Times reports that last Thursday the English Court of Appeal ordered the Metropolitan Police to delete photographs of peaceful protesters demonstrating against the arms trade.(The case is Wood v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2009] EWCA Civ 414.)The Times reports the Court's order was stayed for a month to allow the police the …
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Mistakes of fact, mistakes of law (revisited)
If errors of law don't attract the honest and reasonable claim, what's going on with offences of driving when suspended or disqualified contrary to Road Safety Act s 30? If the status of a liquor licence is a matter of law, as the High Court found in Bergin v Stack, why should the status of …
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Seatbelt amendments
The government brought in some changes to seatbelt laws last December, partly in reaction to some horror smashes on the roads. Extra provisions were inserted into Schedule 4 of the Road Safety (Road Rules) Regulations via the (imaginatively titled) Road Safety (Road Rules)(Seatbelt) Amendment Regulations 2008.The intent of the changes was to increase fines for …