DPP v Orum
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court) |
| Date | 1988 |
| Year | 1988 |
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Coleman v Power
...437 at 444. 13 [1967] NZLR 437 at 446. 14 (1966) 9 FLR 237. 15 (1966) 9 FLR 237 at 243. 16 Marsh v Arscott (1982) 75 Cr App R 211 . 17 [1989] 1 WLR 88 at 93; [1988] 3 All ER 449 at 18 Done at New York on 19 December 1966, [1980] Australian Treaty Series No 23. 19 (1992) 176 CLR 1 at 38. 2......
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Clifford v DPP (Garda McLoughlin)
...of Public Prosecutions [2008] IEHC 322, (Unrep, Charleton J, 29/10/2008); Corporation of Dublin v Flynn [1980] IR 357; DPP v Orum [1989] 1 WLR 88; Marsh v Arscott (1982) 75 Cr App R 211; The People v Murray [1977] IR 360; The People (Director of Public Prosecutions) v Cagney [2007] IESC 46......
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R Reda v Director of Public Prosecutions
...has then taken me to a number of authorities in this field. She referred me, amongst other things, to the case of Director of Public Prosecutions v Oram [1989] 1 WLR 88. That case established, amongst other things, that it is possible for a police officer to be a person who is capable of be......
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Southard v DPP
...than the average person as regards the likelihood of being offended or affected, for instance, by unruly behaviour. As Glidewell LJ said in DPP v Orum (1989) Cr.App.R 261: "I find nothing in the context of the Act of 1986 to persuade me that a police officer may not be a person who is cause......
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1 firm's commentaries
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Section 5 Of The Public Order Act 1986: The Impact Of Harvey v DPP
...to mean the officers were likely to have been caused harassment, alarm or distress. He repeated that which was stated in DPP v Orum [1988] 3 All ER 449 about swear words being "wearisomely familiar". That is not to say that police officers can never be harassed, alarmed or distressed, as so......
4 books & journal articles
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Sticks, Stones and Words: Emotional Harm and the English Criminal Law
...[2006] EWHC 1375 (Admin), (2006) 170 JP 661.71 Ibid. at [11] (Toulson J).72 Ibid. at [12].73 Ibid. at [13].74 Ibid. at [10]; DPP v Orum [1989] 1 WLR 88 at 93.75 [2001] EWHC Admin 1125, (2002) 166 JP 93. One cannot read this case withoutbeing reminded of Marty Robbins ‘Song of the Patriot’, ......
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Public Order Act 1986, S. 5: Religiously Aggravated Behaviour
...for their decision bythe magistrates was that ‘the only persons present’ were ‘both servingpolice officers’. The case of DPP v Orum [1988] 3 All ER 449, DC,established that the accused must take the victim as he finds him andthat it could not be presumed that a police officer could not b......
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Public Order Act 1986, S. 5: Lawfulness of Arrest; Police Act 1996, S. 89(2): Resisting Police Constable in the Execution of Duty
...such a finding, this would haveplaced a significant burden on the police officer to anticipate the findingsof the court.DPP v Orum [1988] 3 All ER 449, DC also discussed lawfulness ofarrest in the context of s. 5(4) of the 1986 Act. It was held in Orum thata constable could not be presu......
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Swearing and s. 5 of the Public Order Act 1986
...doi:10.1350/jcla.2013.77.2.823 Swearing and s. 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 Order Act 1986. The central question in DPP v Orum [1988] 3 All ER 449was whether a police officer could be a person likely to be causedharassment, alarm or distress by threatening, abusive or insulting wordsand/o......
