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Yes: multiple recent reports and parliamentary records show thousands of arrests in the UK for online communications described as “offensive” or otherwise criminal under communications laws, with repo...
UK authorities and prosecutors now routinely treat a wide range of online communications as potential criminal offences: custody and arrest data cited by multiple outlets show roughly 10–12,000 arrest...
Since 2000 UK law has given prosecutors tools to pursue journalists who allegedly assist or encourage crime, but the record shows few clear convictions for “encouraging or assisting” offences and many...
The leading authority construing “grossly offensive” for prosecutions under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 is (, 2006), which establi...
When a in is finalised the public can expect a narrow set of formal outputs: findings in relation to reportable deaths, any public inquest documentation where a hearing was held, and occasional public...