Tag: criminal law

Jessica van der Meer: Paws for Thought: The High Court tackles PSPOs in a Landmark Judgment

The end of April 2018 was a big week for local government governance. In the same week that Ealing Council enacted a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to ban pro-life vigils from taking place outside a Marie Stopes clinic, the High Court handed down a landmark judgment dealing with PSPOs. The judgment is the first…

April 26, 2018
Richard Ekins: A modest proposal: prudence, proportionality and (forced) prostitution

Late last year, in Bedford, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a set of legislative provisions prohibiting the running of brothels, living on the proceeds of prostitution, and communicating in public with clients. The court ruled that while Parliament had authority to regulate nuisances, the legislation in question was grossly disproportionate to this end,…

February 12, 2014

Jessica van der Meer: Paws for Thought: The High Court tackles PSPOs in a Landmark Judgment