The author considers the controversial issues germane to the offence in English domestic law of incitement to religious hatred, highlighting the legal, political and social issues including freedom of speech. Article by Dr Paul Kearns (Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Manchester) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
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The UK’s Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 makes it an offence to deliberately stir up hatred aga...
The UK's Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 makes it an offence to deliberately stir up hatred aga...
The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 has a frenetic history. It is the culmination of six attemp...
This article identifies that hate crime involving religious hatred is increasing at an unprecedented...
This article conducts a review of the principal tools used in English criminal law, from the early m...
Have some of the prosecutions for religiously aggravated offences going before the courts amounted t...
Blasphemy law was once an integral part of English constitutional and criminal law, such was the law...
Hate preaching is capable of constituting both hate crime and hate speech, lies at the centre of man...
This contribution is a review of a book on actions which may offend religious feelings even if it wa...
Given impetus by the backlash of incidents of violence and abuse against Muslims in the wake of the ...
English law has long held the principle that religions should be free from interference by the state...
This article deals with the role of criminal law in dealing with defamatory expressions about religi...
The place of religion in the public sphere has become increasingly controversial in recent years and...
Recently there have been calls from Islamic nations for the creation of a crime of “defamation of re...
Anti-blasphemy laws have endured criticism in light of the modern, secular and democratic state syst...
The UK’s Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 makes it an offence to deliberately stir up hatred aga...
The UK's Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 makes it an offence to deliberately stir up hatred aga...
The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 has a frenetic history. It is the culmination of six attemp...
This article identifies that hate crime involving religious hatred is increasing at an unprecedented...
This article conducts a review of the principal tools used in English criminal law, from the early m...
Have some of the prosecutions for religiously aggravated offences going before the courts amounted t...
Blasphemy law was once an integral part of English constitutional and criminal law, such was the law...
Hate preaching is capable of constituting both hate crime and hate speech, lies at the centre of man...
This contribution is a review of a book on actions which may offend religious feelings even if it wa...
Given impetus by the backlash of incidents of violence and abuse against Muslims in the wake of the ...
English law has long held the principle that religions should be free from interference by the state...
This article deals with the role of criminal law in dealing with defamatory expressions about religi...
The place of religion in the public sphere has become increasingly controversial in recent years and...
Recently there have been calls from Islamic nations for the creation of a crime of “defamation of re...
Anti-blasphemy laws have endured criticism in light of the modern, secular and democratic state syst...