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												Submission to the 91St Session of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
Submission to the 91st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Respect for Freedom of Expression in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland London October 2007 ARTICLE 19 à 6-8 Amwell Street à London EC1R 1UQ à United Kingdom Tel +44 20 7278 9292 à Fax +44 20 7278 7660 à [email protected] à http://www.article19.org 1. Introduction This submission outlines ARTICLE 19’s main concerns regarding respect for the right to freedom of expression in the United Kingdom. Our submissions is presented in respect of the consideration by the United Nations Human Rights Committee of the Sixth Periodic Report of the United Kingdom on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). A list of possible questions to be posed to the United Kingdom representation is appended to this submission. ARTICLE 19 is an international, non-governmental human rights organisation which works around the world to protect and promote the right to freedom of expression and information. 2. Summary of concerns The United Kingdom is a long-standing member of the Council of Europe and European Union and a party to the European Convention of Human Rights as well as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. While the right to freedom of expression is generally respected, there are currently problems in five key areas: Access to information: i) The Freedom of Information Act 2000 contains exemptions which allow access to information to be refused on arbitrary or inappropriate grounds. ii) The government has proposed FOIA amendments to the way the costs of processing a request under the Act are assessed, making it easier to reject politically sensitive or complex requests on the grounds of costs. - 
												
												An Opportunity Lost: the United Kingdom's Failed Reform of Defamation Law
Federal Communications Law Journal Volume 49 Issue 3 Article 4 4-1997 An Opportunity Lost: The United Kingdom's Failed Reform of Defamation Law Douglas W. Vick University of Stirling Linda Macpherson Heriot-Watt University Follow this and additional works at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/fclj Part of the Communications Law Commons, and the European Law Commons Recommended Citation Vick, Douglas W. and Macpherson, Linda (1997) "An Opportunity Lost: The United Kingdom's Failed Reform of Defamation Law," Federal Communications Law Journal: Vol. 49 : Iss. 3 , Article 4. Available at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/fclj/vol49/iss3/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Journals at Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Federal Communications Law Journal by an authorized editor of Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. An Opportunity Lost: The United Kingdom's Failed Reform of Defamation Law Douglas W. Vick* Linda Macpherson** INTRODUCTION ..................................... 621 I. BACKGROUND OF THE ACT ....................... 624 I. THE DEFAMATION ACT 1996 ...................... 629 A. The New Defenses ......................... 630 B. The ProceduralReforms ..................... 636 C. Waiving ParliamentaryPrivilege ............... 643 III. AN OPPORTUNITY LOST ......................... 646 CONCLUSION ....................................... 652 INTRODUCTION The law of defamation in the United Kingdom remains - 
												
												Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill
Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill 7th Marshalled List of Amendments for Stage 2 The Bill will be considered in the following order— Sections 1 to 3 Schedule 1 Sections 4 to 18 Schedule 2 Sections 19 to 66 Schedule 3 Sections 67 to 139 Schedule 4 Sections 140 to 145 Schedule 5 Sections 146 to 148 Long Title Amendments marked * are new (including manuscript amendments) or have been altered. Section 121 Kenny MacAskill 168 In section 121, page 123, leave out lines 2 and 3 and insert— <(3A) No order may be made under subsection (1) unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the order has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.> Section 122 Kenny MacAskill 169 In section 122, page 125, line 1, leave out from <5,> to <29> in line 2 and insert <5 and 11> Section 123 Robert Brown 385 Leave out section 123 After section 124 Kenny MacAskill 170 After section 124, insert— <Licensing of street trading: food hygiene certificates (1) Section 39 of the 1982 Act (street traders’ licences) is amended as follows. SP Bill 24-ML7 1 Session 3 (2010) (2) In subsection (4), for the words from “the requirements” to the end substitute “such requirements as the Scottish Ministers may by order made by statutory instrument specify”. (3) After subsection (4), insert— “(5) An order under subsection (4) may specify requirements by reference to provision contained in another enactment. (6) A statutory instrument containing an order made under subsection (4) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of - 
												
												Modernising English Criminal Legislation 1267-1970
Public Administration Research; Vol. 6, No. 1; 2017 ISSN 1927-517x E-ISSN 1927-5188 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Modernising English Criminal Legislation 1267-1970 Graham McBain1,2 1 Peterhouse, Cambridge, UK 2 Harvard Law School, USA Correspondence: Graham McBain, 21 Millmead Terrace, Guildford, Surrey GU2 4AT, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Received: April 2, 2017 Accepted: April 19, 2017 Online Published: April 27, 2017 doi:10.5539/par.v6n1p53 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/par.v6n1p53 1. INTRODUCTION English criminal - and criminal procedure - legislation is in a parlous state. Presently, there are some 286 Acts covering criminal law and criminal procedure with the former comprising c.155 Acts. Therefore, it is unsurprising that Judge CJ, in his book, The Safest Shield (2015), described the current volume of criminal legislation as 'suffocating'. 1 If one considers all legislation extant from 1267 - 1925 (see Appendix A) a considerable quantity comprises criminal law and criminal procedure - most of which is (likely) obsolete.2 Given this, the purpose of this article is to look at criminal legislation in the period 1267-1970 as well as criminal procedure legislation in the period 1267-1925. Its conclusions are simple: (a) the Law Commission should review all criminal legislation pre-1890 as well as a few pieces thereafter (see Appendix B). It should also review (likely) obsolete common law crimes (see Appendix C); (b) at the same time, the Ministry of Justice (or Home Office) should consolidate all criminal legislation post-1890 into 4 Crime Acts.3 These should deal with: (a) Sex crimes; (b) Public order crimes; (c) Crimes against the person; (d) Property and financial crimes (see 7). - 
												
												Public Person Libel Standards in the British Commonwealth Caribbean Versus the United States
PUBLIC PERSON LIBEL STANDARDS IN THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN VERSUS THE UNITED STATES By ROXANNE SABRINA WATSON A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2006 Copyright 2006 by Roxanne Sabrina Watson To my parents, Sybil and Earle Watson, with gratitude for your love and support ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my supervisory committee chair, Dr. Bill Chamberlin, for his support and guidance over the past four years and also for his patience in working with me in what has turned out to be a very large and involved dissertation. I also want to thank my other supervisory committee members—professors Laurence Alexander, Lisa Duke, David Geggus, and John Wright. I know that without the efforts of each in his or her specific area of expertise, this dissertation would not be possible. I want to thank my parents, Sybil and Earle Watson, for emotional and spiritual encouragement throughout the dissertation process, and for listening to my desperate outbursts and frustrations on a daily basis and keeping me focused on God. Thanks also go to my sister, Kerry Hendricks, for her spiritual encouragement and for her presence when I most needed someone to drive four hours with me to Georgia and back. Thanks also go to my brother, Huntley Watson, for moral support and encouragement. I would also like to acknowledge Eyun-Jung Ki, my dissertation friend with whom I shared many frustrations and triumphs as we waded through the process together. - 
												
												Legislation Title
FALKLAND ISLANDS _____________ Crimes Ordinance 2014 (No: 13 of 2014) ARRANGEMENT OF PROVISIONS CHAPTER 1 – PRELIMINARY PART 1 – PRELIMINARY AND INTERPRETATION Section 1. Title and commencement 2. Interpretation PART 2 – GENERAL PRINCIPLES Criminal liability 3. Age of criminal responsibility 4. Inferences as to intent 5. Automatism Offences committed outside the Falkland Islands 6. Offences committed partly outside the Falkland Islands 7. Offences to which sections 8 to 13 apply 8. Jurisdiction in respect of Group A offences 9. Questions immaterial to jurisdiction in the case of certain offences 10. Rules relating to the location of events 11. Conspiracy and encouraging 12. Extended jurisdiction in relation to certain attempts 13. Relevance of external law Alternative verdicts 14. Conviction of offence other than that charged 1 15. Person tried for offence may be convicted of ancillary offence Miscellaneous 16. Proceedings by and against spouses 17. Application of Ordinance to corporations 18. No requirement for corroboration PART 3 – ANCILLARY OFFENCES Attempts 19. Attempts generally 20. Application of procedural and other provisions to offences of attempt 21. Procedural rules 22. Effect of sections 19 to 21 on common law Conspiracy 23. Conspiracy 24. Conspiracy to commit offences outside the Falkland Islands 25. Exemptions from liability 26. Penalties 27. Restrictions on the commencement of proceedings 28. Conspiracy under other enactments 29. Effect of acquittal of other defendant 30. Abolitions, savings, transitional provisions Encouragement of offences 31. Offence of encouragement 32. Proving an offence under section 31 33. Supplemental provisions 34. Defences 35. Jurisdiction 36. Extended jurisdiction in certain cases 37. Commencement of proceedings, etc. for an offence 38. - 
												
												Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill [AS AMENDED at STAGE 2]
Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill [AS AMENDED AT STAGE 2] CONTENTS Section PART 1 SENTENCING The Scottish Sentencing Council 3 The Scottish Sentencing Council 4 The Council’s objectives 5 Sentencing guidelines 6 Consultation on proposed sentencing guidelines 6A Approval of sentencing guidelines by High Court 7 Effect of sentencing guidelines 8 Ministers’ power to request that sentencing guidelines be prepared or reviewed 9 High Court’s power to require preparation or review of sentencing guidelines 9A Publication of High Court guideline judgements 10 Scottish Court Service to provide sentencing information to the Council 11 The Council’s power to provide information, advice etc. 12 Business plan 13 Annual report Community payback orders 14 Community payback orders Non-harassment orders 15 Non-harassment orders Short sentences 16 Short periods of detention 18 Amendments of Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007 19 Early removal of certain short-term prisoners from the United Kingdom Other sentencing measures 20 Reports about supervised persons 20A Pre-sentencing reports about organisations 21 Extended sentences for certain sexual offences 22 Effect of probation and absolute discharge 23 Offences aggravated by racial or religious prejudice 24A Mutual recognition of judgments and probation decisions 24B Minimum sentence for having in a public place an article with a blade or point SP Bill 24A Session 3 (2010) ii Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill PART 2 CRIMINAL LAW Serious organised crime 25 Involvement in serious organised crime 26 Offences aggravated by connection with serious organised crime 27 Directing serious organised crime 28 Failure to report serious organised crime Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes 28A Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes: UK residents 28B Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes: retrospective application Articles banned in prison 29 Articles banned in prison Crossbows, knives etc. - 
												
												Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]
Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL] EXPLANATORY NOTES Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, are published separately as Bill 103—EN. EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Mr Pat McFadden has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998: In my view the provisions of the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL] are compatible with the Convention rights. Bill 103 54/3 Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL] CONTENTS PART 1 THE LOCAL BETTER REGULATION OFFICE Establishment of LBRO 1 LBRO 2 Dissolution of the LBRO company Definitions 3 “Local authority” 4“Relevant function” General functions of LBRO 5 Objective relating to general functions 6 Guidance to local authorities 7 Guidance to local authorities: enforcement 8 Financial support and assistance to local authorities 9 Advice to Ministers of the Crown 10 Advice to Welsh Ministers Function relating to enforcement priorities 11 Enforcement priorities Matters relating to exercise of LBRO’s functions 12 Relationship with other regulators 13 Duty not to impose burdens etc 14 Ancillary powers Ministerial powers in relation to LBRO 15 Guidance or directions by the Secretary of State 16 Guidance or directions by Welsh Ministers Bill 103 54/3 ii Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL] Supplementary and general 17 Review of LBRO 18 Power to dissolve LBRO 19 Dissolution of LBRO: tax 20 Orders under Part 1 21 Interpretation of Part 1 PART 2 CO-ORDINATION OF REGULATORY - 
											
Rights of Englishmen Since 1776: Some Anglo-American Notes" (1976)
College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Faculty Publications Faculty and Deans 1976 Rights of Englishmen Since 1776: Some Anglo- American Notes William F. Swindler William & Mary Law School Repository Citation Swindler, William F., "Rights of Englishmen Since 1776: Some Anglo-American Notes" (1976). Faculty Publications. 1596. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/1596 Copyright c 1976 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs University of Pennsylvania Law Review FOUNDED 1852 Formerly American Law Register VOLUME 124 MAY 1976 NUMBER 5 "RIGHTS OF ENGLISHMEN" SINCE 1776: SOME ANGLO-AMERICAN NOTES* WILLIAM F. SWINDLERt In commemorating the two hundred years since English colonists in the New World concluded that they could secure their "rights as Englishmen" only by breaking free from England itself, the most meaningful perspective will derive from an ap- praisal of both English and American constitutional evolution since then. For central to the crisis of 1774-1783 was the fact that the colonies and the mother country proceeded from fundamen- tally, irreconcilably opposed understandings of the British con- stitution itself. The American Revolution effected fundamental changes in England and in America, launching both nations upon new courses on which they have continued to the present. It should follow, therefore, that the most practical evaluation of the one course will depend upon a comparable evaluation of the other. I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL IMPASSE OF 1776 A. The Sea Change of Viewpoints For most of the 170 years from the drafting of the first charter of the Virginia Company of London in 1606 to the third * This Article is in part based on a lecture given at Lincoln's Inn, London, January 8, 1975. - 
												
												Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät DNA-Datenbankgesetzgebung
Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät _____________________________________________________________________________________ DNA-Datenbankgesetzgebung - Eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse unter Berücksichtigung des Spannungsverhältnisses zwischen der Effizienz der Strafver- folgung und den Anforderungen an den Schutz der Pri- vatsphäre von Qin, Jing aus Linfen, Provinz Shanxi, China Freiburg, September 2012 1 Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde an der Rechtwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau Jing Qin, Freiburg Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 19.11.2012 Dekan: Prof. Dr. Alexander Bruns Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Thomas Würtenberger Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky 2 Vorwort Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im November des Wintersemesters 2012/13 von der juris- tischen Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg als Dissertation ange-nommen. Gesetze, Rechtsprechung und Schrifttum befinden sich im Wesentlichen auf dem Stand vom Mai 2012. Danken möchte ich an erster Stelle meinem Doktorvater Prof. Dr. Thomas Wür- ten-berger, der die Entstehung der Arbeit durch wertvolle Anregungen sowie den nötigen Freiraum gefördert hat. Während meines LL.M-Studiums und meiner Promotion hat er stets mit Rat und Tat zur Seite gestanden und ich bin davon überzeugt, dass seine Be- rufseinstellung, Nettigkeit und Geduld mein zukünftiges Arbeitsleben tief und dauerhaft prägen werden. Für die zügige Entstehung des Zweitgutachtens danke ich Frau Professo- rin Dr. Vöneky. Besonderer Dank gilt meinen Mentor Richter - 
												
												Elizabeths Ii Regin^E
IMPERIAL ACTS APPLICATION ACT. ANNO OCTAVO DECIMO ELIZABETHS II REGIN^E Act No. 30, 1969. An Act to provide that certain enactments of the Parliament of England and of the Parliament of Great Britain and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in force in England at the time of the passing of the Imperial Act 9 George IV Chapter 83 shall continue in force in New South Wales; to replace other enactments of such Parliaments; to repeal other enactments of such Parliaments; to validate certain matters; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 9th April, 1969.] BE DE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: — PART I. PRELIMINARY. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the "Imperial Acts Application Act, 1969". (2) This Act shall, except where otherwise expressly provided, commence upon a day to be appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation in the Gazette. 2. This Act shall be read and construed subject to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act and so as not to exceed the legislative power of the State, to the intent that where any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this Act and the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected. 3. This Act is divided into Parts and Divisions as follows :— PART I.—PRELIMINARY—ss. - 
												
												Coroners and Justice Act 2009, Section 182
Changes to legislation: There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, Section 182. (See end of Document for details) Coroners and Justice Act 2009 2009 CHAPTER 25 PART 9 GENERAL 182 Commencement (1) The following provisions come into force on the day on which this Act is passed— (a) sections 47 and 48; (b) section 116; (c) section 143; (d) sections 151 and 152; (e) section 154; (f) this section and sections 176, 177(3) to (10), 179, 181 and 183; (g) Schedule 18; (h) paragraphs 62(3) and 94 to 98 of Schedule 21 (and section 177(1) so far as relating to those provisions); (i) Part 1 and paragraphs 26 and 47 of Schedule 22 (and section 177(2) so far as relating to those provisions); (j) in Schedule 23— (i) in Part 3, the repeals relating to the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1933 (c. 36) and the Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54), (ii) in Part 4, the repeals in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), (iii) in Part 5, the repeal of section 8(6) of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 (c. 45), (iv) in Part 6, the repeals in sections 17 and 17A of, and Schedule 3 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22), and (v) Part 9, and section 178 so far as relating to those repeals. 2 Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25) Part 9 – General Document Generated: 2021-07-06 Changes to legislation: There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, Section 182.