How are processions and assemblies regulated in the UK? Can you identify any problems with the current legislative framework?

HUMAN RIGHTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES M9988

Essay Titles for Part 2: A Comparative Perspective of Protests and Law

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1. How are processions and assemblies regulated in the UK? Can you identify any problems with the current legislative framework?

Required Reading

1. David Mead The New Law of Peaceful Protest (Hart Publishing, Oxford 2010) 168-233, 252-263
2. Christopher J Newman ‘Protest and aggravated trespass: refining the scope of “lawful activities” and “immediately practicable”’ (2012) 76 Journal of Criminal Law 286
3. Christopher Newman ‘Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986: The Threshold of Extreme Protest’ (2012) 76 Journal of Criminal Law 105

Further reading

1. Sophie Turenne ‘The Compatibility of Criminal Liability with Freedom of Expression’ (2007) Criminal Law Review 866
2. Andrew Geddis ‘Free Speech Martyrs or Unreasonable Threats to Social Peace? – “Insulting” Expression and Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986’ (2004) Public Law 853
3. Steve Foster ‘Free Speech, Insulting Words or Behaviour and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights’ (2004) 9 Coventry Law Journal 68

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