R v Reiter
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1954 |
| Date | 1954 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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10 cases
- Mohamed Ibrahim v PP
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R v Carleton John Elliott
...that they might decide what society at large, in 1995, considers to be acceptable. But this submission seems to us to fly in the face of R v. Reiter [1954] 2 QB 16. Reiter is a decision of this Court consisting of the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Goddard, Slade J. and Gerrard J., and it is suff......
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Attorney General v Lau Kai Cheung
...is obscene see Thomson v. Chain Libraries Ltd. (1954) 2 All E.R. 616, R v. Martin Secker Warburg Ltd. (1954) 2 A11 E.R. 683, R v. Reiter (1954) 2 Q.B. 16, R v. Mirchandani (1977) HKLR 523. Nevertheless a publication was held to be an obscene publication even if only a part of it was obscene......
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Public Prosecutor v Amos Yee Pang Sang
...from South Africa (exhibit D1). Comparisons with other available material has been held to be the wrong approach (Regina v. Reiter [1954] 2 Q.B. 16). What is permitted elsewhere in the world is also irrelevant. I am not concerned with standards in other countries. Exhibit D1 is thus irrelev......
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Court of Criminal Appeal
...interfered with. COURTOFCRIMINALAPPEAL249EVIDENCE OFOBSCENITY:MODERN STANDARDSR. v. ReiterInupholdingtheconvictions in R. v. Reiter (1954, 2W.L.R. 638) theCourt(LordGoddard, C. J., SladeandGerrardII.)heldthatit is right for the trialjudgenotto tellthejurythatthey should take into considerat......
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Recent Judicial Decisions
...OF OBSCENITYR. v. ReiterThe Court of Criminal Appeal in dismissing appeals againstconvictionandsentence in R. v. Reiter (1954, 2 W.L.R. 638) re-affirmed the traditional legal tests to determine what publicationsare obscene. On an indictment containing seven countsofutteringandpublishing obs......