Sentences with phrase «public decency does»

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.

Not exact matches

Beyond that I honestly don't care, again, public solicitation is a decency issue that has to be adressed and regulated by society, but if 51 % say it's legal, then it's legal.

It must clearly be noted that this was in essence far more a demonstration of political loyalty than of religious worship; and it must still more clearly be noted that Rome was the reverse of intolerant, and, if a man made this confession of political faith, he could then go away and worship any god he liked, so long as that worship did not conflict with public decency and order.

Personal piety and decency are no replacements for a wise and just public policy, and they do not necessarily translate into it.

In doing so they also address the depictions of homosexual video game characters and the bizarre public decency of John Shaft.

In a recent opinion in People v. Martinez, Criminal Court Judge Ruben Franco held that» [w] hile most of us may consider it distasteful, and indeed foolish, to wear ones pants so low as to expose the underwear... «people can dress as they please, wear anything, so long as they do not offend public order and decency.»»

In future, however, it seems likely that outraging public decency will be confined to those acts which do not fall squarely within the scope of a statutory offence.

«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.»

There are other communities that make up the public, including the community in Courtroom 208, the community that did not complain, the community of 62, which lent its specific support and whose words described a man of decency, compassion, an empathetic and thoughtful listener, a «dedicated judge,» «not polarized, misogynistic, biased or racist in any way whatsoever,» «everything Donald Trump is not.»

The public element in the offence was satisfied if the act was done where people were present and the nature of what was being done was capable of being seen; the principle was that the public were to be protected from obscene or disgusting acts which were of a nature that outraged public decency and which were capable of being seen in public.

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.

Moreover, the purpose of the requirement that the act be of such a kind that it outraged public decency went to setting a standard which the jury had to judge by reference to contemporary standards; it did not require that someone saw the act and was outraged.

With positive signs against corruption and inefficiency emerging in the early days of Ramaphosa's presidency, his SONA speech might sum it up best: «We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity, that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources, nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard - earned savings of ordinary people.»