Public Order Offence in UK Law

  • Cozens v Brutus
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Junio 1972
    ... ... occasioned, contrary to section 5 of the Public Order Act, 1936, as amended ... 2 While a ... was not insulting within the terms of the offence alleged. They did not consider the other points ... ...
  • R (McCann) v Manchester Crown Court
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Octubre 2002
    ... ... , to make an anti-social behaviour order prohibiting a defendant from doing prescribed ... (11)Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (10) above, it shall not be open ... him, everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an ... ...
  • R v Rimmington; R v Goldstein (Harry Chaim)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Octubre 2005
    ... ... , of the common law crime of causing a public nuisance. The appellants contend that, as applied in their cases, the offence is too imprecisely defined, and the courts' ... I would accordingly order under section 37(5) of the Act that subsection ... ...
  • Manchester City Council v Pinnock (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening)
    • Supreme Court
    • 03 Noviembre 2010
    ... ... a court, which is being asked to make an order for possession under section 143D(2) of the ... landlords to the extent that they are public authorities under the Human Rights Act 1998 (" ... , including a racial Public Order Act offence, driving while disqualified and blackmail. The ... ...
  • R v Ashton; R v Draz; R v O'Reilly
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 05 Abril 2006
    ... ... (as a judge of the magistrates' court) in order to overcome certain procedural failures or ... deal with the defendant on a summary only offence (outside the six-month time limit) ... by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions. In the Crown Court the prosecution ... ...
  • R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Marzo 1993
    ... ... the following point of law of general public importance: "Where A wounds or assaults ... are now three types of assault in ascending order of gravity, first common assault, secondly ... case each appellant pleaded guilty to an offence under this section when the trial judge ruled ... ...
  • R v Margaret Jones; Swain v DPP; R v Arthur Milling; R v Toby Olditch; R v Philip Pritchard
    • House of Lords
    • 29 Marzo 2006
    ... ... (Appellants) and Director of Public Prosecutions (Respondent) (Criminal ... found expression in the international legal order, and understandably so, since it is states which ... They were all charged with the offence of aggravated trespass contrary to section 68(1) ... ...
  • R v Howell (Errol)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 13 Abril 1981
    ... ... more you will be arrested for disturbing public orden" The Appellant said that the foul language he was using was not disturbing public order, to which Hammersley replied: "At 4 a.m. in the ... was not charged with this statutory offence. Accordingly, and for the additional reason that ... ...
  • Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Trust
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Julio 2006
    ... ... 20 Section 2 creates the criminal offence of harassment. The offence comprises pursuit of a ... primarily a legislative response to the public order problem of stalking. The Act was not aimed ... ...
  • Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Julio 1977
    ... ... forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 27th of ... all the circumstances including the public interest relating to the application for my ... to procure any other person to commit an offence punishable on indictment under this Act, he shall ... ...
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