When does public nakedness become a crime? – BBC News
“A man who stood naked on a Trafalgar Square plinth was not breaking the law say police, so when does being naked in public become a crime?”
BBC News, 3rd September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: public order
Regina (Wood) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis – Times Law Reports
Regina (Wood) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Court of Appeal
“Justification for state interference with the right to privacy had to be the more compelling where that interference was in pursuit of the protection of the community from the risk of public disorder or low level crime as against the danger of terrorism or really serious criminal activity.”
The Times, 1st June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Lawyers to fight bail conditions that ‘stifle’ climate protests – The Guardian
“Lawyers representing climate change protesters who were arrested in parliament last week are to mount a legal challenge against bail conditions that were imposed, they say, to ‘stifle’ future protest by their clients.”
The Guardian, 3rd May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
IPCC chairman calls for public order debate – The Independent
“The head of the police complaints watchdog is calling for a national debate on how officers maintain public order after revealing nearly 90 complaints had been received about the use of force at the G20 protests.”
The Independent, 19th April 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Lettuce nose-stuffer avoids jail – BBC News
“A West Midlands sandwich bar worker who was prosecuted after footage of him stuffing lettuce up his nose appeared on YouTube has avoided a jail term.”
BBC News, 11th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Father jailed for taking on drug dealer – Daily Telegraph
“A father was jailed for storming into a drug dealer’s home and flushing his heroin stash down the toilet.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th February 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Kay v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis – WLR Daily
Kay v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2008] UKHL 69; [2008] WLR (D) 00; [2008] WLR (D) 369
“A procession could be ‘commonly or customarily held’, so as to be exempt from the requirement to give advance notice to the police under s 11 of the Public Order Act 1986, even though on each occasion it took a different route.”
WLR Daily, 27th November 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Regina (Kay) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis – Times Law Reports
Regina (Kay) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
House of Lords
“Since a procession could be commonly or customarily held even though on each occasion it took a different route, a monthly mass cycle ride through London which set off from a fixed starting place but the route of which was determined by whoever happened to be at the front at any one time was such a procession so as to be excluded from the statutory requirement for organisers of public processions to give the police prior notice of the event.”
The Times, 27th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Law Lords block police bid to stop critical mass cyclists – The Independent
“Police attempts to outlaw the monthly Critical Mass cycle ride through the streets of London unless its route was notified in advance were blocked by the Law Lords today.”
The Independent, 26th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
E v Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and Another – Times Law Reports
E v Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and Another
House of Lords
“The positive obligation imposed on the state by article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights to prevent the infliction by third parties of inhuman or degrading treatment was not unqualified and absolute. It was an obligation to do all that was reasonably to be expected to avoid a real or immediate risk to an individual once the existence of that risk was known or ought to have been known.”
The Times, 19th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
E v Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and another (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission intervening) – WLR Daily
“The positive obligation imposed on the state and its emanations by art 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms to prevent the infliction by third parties of inhuman or degrading treatment was not unqualified, and was an obligation to do all that was reasonably to be expected to avoid a real or immediate risk to an individual once the existence of that risk was known or ought to have been known.”
WLR Daily, 12th November 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Lap dancing clubs ‘no trouble’ – BBC News
“Police find it difficult to close down lap dancing clubs because their customers are usually well-behaved, a vice squad chief has told MPs.”
BBC News, 14th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
24-hour drink law has not cut violence, say frontline workers – The Times
“The Government’s attempt to reduce alcohol-related disorder by introducing 24-hour drinking has failed dismally, according to a survey.”
The Times, 1st July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Anti-Bush protesters to defy march ban – The Guardian
“Anti-war campaigners said today that they would defy a ban on a planned march to Downing Street at the weekend to protest at the visit by the US president, George Bush.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Scientology protest: Liberty challenges police over summons – The Guardian
“The police force that issued a teenager with a court summons for calling Scientology a cult could face a judicial review over the legality of its policing guidelines.”
The Guardian, 28th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology ‘cult’ – The Guardian
“A teenager is facing prosecution for using the word ‘cult’ to describe the Church of Scientology.”
The Guardian, 20th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Train riot football thugs jailed – BBC News
“Football hooligans who attacked rival fans on a train packed with passengers have been jailed.”
BBC News, 13th March 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
S v Director of Public Prosecutions – WLR Daily
S v Director of Public Prosecutions
“The offence under section 4A(1)(b) of the Public Order Act 1986 of displaying, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress, a visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, thereby causing that or another person harassment, alarm or distress, may be established even where the harassment, alarm or distress crystallises only at the date several months after the act of displaying and at the instance of action by a police officer.”
WLR Daily, 14th February 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Man jailed for heart attack – BBC News
“A man has been jailed for blocking the path of an ambulance carrying a dying heart attack victim to hospital.”
BBC News, 20th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Austin and Another v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis – Times Law Reports
Police had good defence to unlawful detention claim
Austin and Another v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Court of Appeal
“It was lawful only in extreme and exceptional circumstances for the police to contain demonstrators and members of the public caught up in that demonstration who themselves did not appear to be about to commit a breach of the peace. Containment was lawful only where it was necessary to prevent others from committing an imminent breach of the peace and there was no other way to achieve that.”
The Times, 29th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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