Sentences with phrase «of outraging public»

Those cases established that if the offence of outraging public decency was to be proved, it was necessary to prove two elements: first, that the act was of such a lewd character as to outrage public decency; that element constituted the nature of the act which had to be proved before the offence could be established.

He submitted that the offence of outraging public decency, as developed by 19th century authorities, was confined to instances where a lewd act had been witnessed by a least one person.

The defendant was subsequently convicted of committing an act of outraging public decency contrary to the common law.

The two person rule in respect of establishing the public element of the offence of outraging public decency contrary to the common law can be satisfied if there were two or more people present who were capable of seeing the nature of the act, even if they did not actually see it.

For example, the offence of outraging public decency criminalises lewd, obscene or disgusting behaviour committed in public, but requires for the act to have taken place in the presence of two or more people.

Furthermore, the offence of outraging public decency does not fall under the sex offenders» notification requirements, while a voyeur convicted under section 67 can be made subject to notification if the sentence passed is over a certain threshold or if the victim is under 18.

Those who have been caught upskirting in public have previously been convicted of outraging public decency.

HELD In order to prove an offence of outraging public decency the prosecution had to show that: (i) that the act was of such a lewd, obscene or disgusting character that it outraged public decency; and (ii) that the act took place in a public place and that it was capable of being seen by two or more persons present even if they had not actually seen it.

On the question of the meaning of outraging public decency, Lord Simon opined:

«Whether on the evidence allowed before the court an offence of outraging public decency had been committed, as no one other than the appellant was shown to be aware of what he was doing when he was filming.»

It was contended on behalf of the appellant that the law relating to the offence of outraging public decency had developed in such a way that the offence was confined to those instances where the necessary lewd act had been witnessed by at least one person, and the public nature of the offence was only satisfied if, in addition, at least one other person either had or could have seen the act.

With these criticisms in mind, the latest in a long line of cases, R v Hamilton [2007] EWCA Crim 2026, [2007] All ER (D) 99 (Aug), merits consideration to determine what light it throws, if any, on the elements of the offence of outraging public decency.

As part of our plea agreement, the defendant pled no contest to the misdemeanor offense of outraging public decency.

But during an eleven - day trial at Guildford Crown Court, a jury took less than four hours to acquit him of all two dozen indecent assault counts, and one count of outraging public decency.

Obviously, half of the outraged public feels that this is encouraging driver distractions,...

Obviously, half of the outraged public feels that this is encouraging driver distractions, and the other half — well, they just want to text.

Not exact matches

«Never before have you seen this type of public and outrage and curiosity.

That caused plenty of public outrage and embarrassment, so Congress passed a bill authorizing the AMT to start in 1970.

Responding to public outrage, the government has recently introduced a series of measures like making public the level of air pollution in Beijing and also plans to impose emission restrictions on the steel, coal and petrochemicals industries, among others.

Zuckerberg and Sandberg, on the other hand, were at first nowhere to be found, dispatching instead their vice president and deputy general counsel to address employees after days of public outrage.

«There is a lack of trust here, and I feel the public was justified in their initial outrage,» she said, referring to mistakes that Dove has made in the past.

The vulnerability is common, and it will cause other service - based companies to walk the plank of public outrage if it is not properly understood and contained.

«Being truthful, even if it makes one look bad, is the quickest way to reduce the length of time spent by media covering an issue or the length of public outrage exhibited on social media.

In the beginning of the film, superheroes are forced to retire by the government when public outrage over the heroes» unchecked power reaches new heights.

That ignited public outrage far beyond any previous reaction to press intrusion into the lives of celebrities, which the paper had previously acknowledged and for which it paid compensation.

Opinion polls showed that just 22 % of New Brunswickers supported the deal, and a two - month - long diet of protests and loud public outrage convinced five of Graham's Liberal MLAs, including three cabinet ministers, to tell the premier in early January that they couldn't support the transaction.

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Robert Reich, a former U.S. Secretary of Labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of «Beyond Outrage,» now available in paperback.

There would also probably no shortage of public outrage, with some claiming that the government is trying to censor certain political beliefs.

«I was outraged as a customer using their product and significantly concerned for every woman who works at Uber,» said DeNardo, who is head of public relations and social media for Justin Kan Enterprises and start - up incubator Zero - F in San Francisco.

There is also a sense among analysts that investors believe the worst may be over in terms of public opinion, though that remains to be seen given the outrage over the disaster caused by the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in April.

Public reaction to this complex picture has been reminiscent of the last time there was widespread outrage about social media in political life — the revelations made by Edward Snowden in June 2013.

Growing public outrage over the misuse of the private information of tens of millions of Facebook users by the firm that claimed it helped Donald Trump win the White House has ignited a full - blown crisis, with U.S. and European lawmakers demanding hearings and investigations underway by the Federal Trade Commission and two state attorneys general.

Growing public outrage over the misuse of private information has worried employees and sunk stock.

Dubbed Facebook's «collapse» of public trust, the double revelation that Cambridge Analytica, ostensibly a voter - profiling company, collected the data of 50 million Facebook accounts without user permission, and that thousands of third - party developers built apps on Facebook's platform to gather private information has spurred international outrage.

The sale of nearly $ 2 million in corporate stock by high - level Equifax executives shortly after the company learned of a major data breach has sparked public outrage that could turn into another hurdle for the credit rating agency.

Senator Elizabeth Warren put her finger on the pulse of the growing public outrage over how the Federal Reserve conducts much of its operations in secret and appears to frequently succumb to the desires of Wall Street to the detriment of the public interest.

The remark comes amid growing public outrage over the misuse of the private information of tens of millions Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica, the firm that claimed it helped Donald Trump win the White House.

Patrick Ruffini, a co-founder Echelon Insights, a Republican - leaning digital analytics and research firm, said the public outrage this week over the disclosures about Cambridge Analytica «feels like a double standard» against the backdrop of how the Obama campaign and other Democratic and Republican political operatives sought to use Facebook data during the 2012 and 2014 election cycles.

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The aim of these recent suits (contrary to the claims of outraged separationists) is not to restore traditional religious teaching and practices, but to purge away a «counterreligion,» an alternative system of belief that the plaintiffs claim public schools are inculcating.

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Reflecting on the rash of outraged protests against allegedly sexist, racist, and homophobic slurs erupting in our public life, New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen tries to get to the root of the matter.

We live in an age of collective outrage, where misdeeds committed by public figures — the kinds of actions that were once easily forgotten or never exposed in the first place — can become global trending topics in a matter of hours.

But although the controversy helped bring conversations about abortion back into the cultural spotlight, it appears that much of the outrage failed to make a real or lasting impact on public opinion.

Those institutions, however, are not subjected to a sustained storm of public scandal and outrage.

As a proponent of the importance of religion in public life, Neuhaus is right to be concerned, even outraged.

Public outrage is being shown in many areas of the nation but the fanfares for or against the T vs. G trial is being socially weighed - in and national governances are taking notice in order to see just how fractured socialism is...

Many of those outraged by the allegations against Penn State, including that Paterno had reportedly been told about the abuse but declined to notify authorities, have pointed a finger at what they say was the school's and its football program's commitment to maintaining a sterling public image, drawing parallels to the church.