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UK law allows arrests over social-media posts under several overlapping statutes: legacy “communications offences” (section 1 Malicious Communications Act 1988 and section 127 Communications Act 2003)...
The UK does not have one single “hate speech law”; instead online hate speech is prosecuted through a patchwork of offences (Public Order Act provisions, Scotland’s separate law, and offences captured...
The key UK laws governing online hate speech combine criminal offences that target stirring up hatred and threatening or abusive communications with a newer regulatory regime that places duties on onl...
Reforms have aimed to replace or modernise the overlapping, vague offences in section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 with a clearer, harm‑bas...
The Malicious Communications Act 1988 (MCA 1988) and section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 (CA 2003) are the two principal criminal tools prosecutors use in England and Wales to police harmful on...
The current UK legal definition used in crime reporting equates with intentionally touching another person sexually without consent, including touching with any part of the body or an object, as set o...
UK surrogacy law applies equally to everyone, including members of royal families: ; surrogacy in England and Wales is permitted only on an altruistic basis, the surrogate is the legal mother at birth...
UK courts have imposed a range of penalties in recent online hate-speech and related communications cases, from fines (for example the £800 fine of Scottish YouTuber Mark Meechan) to custodial sentenc...