Incitement in UK Law
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Incitement to Religious Hatred: All Talk and No Substance?
The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 has a frenetic history. It is the culmination of six attempts in Parliament in the last twelve years to make incitement to religious hatred unlawful.1 Each ...
- Incitement to Racial Hatred
- Incitement—A Tale of Three Agents
- Incitement and Impossibility—Do We Need a Statutory Definition of Incitement?
- Recent Developments in, and Present Position of, Incitement to Racial Hatred
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Context and the Limits of Legal Reasoning: The ‘Victim Focus’ of Section 18c in Comparative Perspective
This paper considers the recent controversy surrounding section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, and assesses the need for reform. I argue that the controversy surrounding section 18C is trace...... ... from the traditional characterisation of vilification as speech that harms social cohesion an approach I refer to as the incitement focus. I defend section 18Cs victim focus by analysing the reas oning of the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on the Elimination ... ...
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‘Islamophobia’ and the law
In Belgium a man was convicted for incitement to racial hatred and discrimination because he publicly tore up a Koran, before the eyes of a small group of Muslims. The case fits within a wider deve...... ... and thelaw: Belgian hate speechlegislation and thewilful destructionof the KoranJogchum VrielinkAbstractIn Belgium a man was convicted for incitement to racial hatred and discriminationbecause he publicly tore up a Koran, before the eyes of a small group of Muslims. Thecase fits within a wider ... ...
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Inequalities and content moderation
As the harms of hate speech, mis/disinformation and incitement to violence on social media have become increasingly apparent, calls for regulation have accelerated. Most of these debates have centr...
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Freedom of Expression, Counter-Terrorism and the Internet in Light of the UK Terrorist Act 2006 and the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
As a result of the ‘War on Terror’ domestic governments and the international community have paid increasing attention to counter-terrorism legislation. Given the meteoric rise in prominence of the...... ... for one of the most fundamental of human rights, the right to freedom of expressio n? is article will analyse the concept s of incitement, glorication and dissemination as they relate to the Internet, and evaluate their place within the broader framework of the right to ... ...
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