Public order offences: how feasible is their applicability to online hate?

As an area of law in the UK, public order offences are almost entirely useless on social media. This set of offences (ss. 4, 4A and 5 of the Public Order Act 1986) was aimed to address any behaviour or expressive activities, either oral or written, carried out in a context of physical proximity to t...

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Main Author: Gordon Benito, Iñigo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
Year: 2024, Volume: 14, Issue: 6, Pages: 1598-1622
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