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22.09.23
New legislation to deal with sex-based harassment now in force
On 18 September 2023, a new Act came into force primarily creating a new offence of sex-based harassment. The Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023 amends the Public Order Act 1986 by creating a new offence of intentional harassment, alarm or distress on account of sex. What is the offence? The new offence…
Read more16.05.18
Suspect Anonymity: is it actually feasible?
Former popstar and baby-boomer heart-throb Cliff Richard is suing the BBC for breach of privacy regarding its report that he had been accused of a sexual offence, and also its coverage in 2014 of the subsequent police raid on his home. The BBC coverage included use of a helicopter, and broadcasting the police search through…
Read more8.03.18
Upskirt photos: the need for specific legislation
The activity of taking photographs up women’s skirts without their knowledge is very difficult to defend in the moral sense, or indeed in any sense. Up-skirting, also known as ‘Creepshots’, may have been defended by some years ago as an adolescent frolic, a bit like fixing mirrors to one’s toecaps and other jolly japes from…
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