R v Hicklin

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1865
Date1865
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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  • Table of Cases
    • United States
    • The Path of Constitutional Law Suplemmentary Materials
    • 1 January 2007
    ...637 (1584), 57-58, 103-04, 174, 356 Hicklin v. Orbeck, 437 U.S. 518, 98 S.Ct. 2482, 57 L.Ed.2d 397 (1978), 893-94 Hicklin, Regina v., L.R. 3 Q.B. 360 (1868), Hicks v. Miranda, 422 U.S. 332, 95 S.Ct. 2281, 45 L.Ed.2d 223(1975), 587, 616 High Tech Gays v. Defense Indus. Security Clearance Off......
  • Pornography and Politics: the Court, the Constitution, and the Commission
    • United States
    • Political Research Quarterly No. 24-4, December 1971
    • 1 December 1971
    ...U.S. 476, 502 (1957)(Harlan, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).7 352 U.S. 380 (1957).8 Ibid., at 383.9 Regina v. Hicklin, L.R. 3 Q.B. 360 (1868). The famous test of obscenity as "pornographicmatter having influence upon particularly susceptible persons" appears in the opinionof......
  • Pornography as Sex Discrimination? A Critical Reflection on the Constitutional Court’s Interpretation of Gender Politics, Differentiation and (Unfair) Discrimination
    • South Africa
    • Stellenbosch Law Review No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...S cott, Applicant v Benja min Hicklin and Anothe r, Justices of Wolverhamp ton, Respondents ( popularly cited as Regina v Hicklin) (1868) LR 3 QB 360 The Ch ief Justice declare d: “I think th e test of obscenity is this, wh ether the tendency of the mat ter charged as obscenity i s to depri......
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    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 44 No. 2, December 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...Brodie (n 163) 684-5 (Kerwin CJ). (165) See, eg, Plaxton, Sovereignty, Restraint, & Guidance (n 23) 269-77, discussing R v Hicklin (1868) LR 3 QB 360, 371 (Cockburn (166) Dechow v The Queen [1978] 1 SCR 951, 961-2 (Laskin CJ for Laskin CJ, Judson, Spence and Dickson JJ). (167) Brodie (n......
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