 Harassment, alarm or distress (1) A person is guilty of an offence if he — (a) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or (b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening,...  Racist Violence in the United Kingdomby Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.) - 1997 - 101 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) - Political Science - 1991 - 84 pages
...writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, within die hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby." While the secdon was designed as a tool against racial harassment, during the 1 987 general... | |
 | Yoram Dinstein, Mala Tabory - Political Science - 1993 - 272 pages
...displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby. (2) An offence under this section may be committed in a public or private place, except that... | |
 | Adam Brown - Art - 1998 - 324 pages
...another person believed 'unlawful violence will be used against him or another',9 or the chanting was 'within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress'."' Under the 1991 Act, no recognisable individual is needed, although the racial abuse will generally... | |
 | Thomas David Jones - Political Science - 1998 - 346 pages
...to Part III prosecution. Section 5 prohibits "threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress."142 If one "does not cease such conduct following a police warning, he may be arrested without... | |
 | Elizabeth Burney - Political Science - 1999 - 166 pages
...vice versa. 25 Section 5 POA 1986. One result was that the charge of threatening or disorderly conduct 'within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress' was used by the police when they themselves were the only people present as potential victims. Tim... | |
 | Penny Green, Andrew Rutherford - Law - 2000 - 303 pages
...displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby". As with many of the Act's provisions, and in line with a growing legislative tendency, the... | |
 | Steve Greenfield, Guy Osborn - Law - 2001 - 246 pages
...displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby. 21. This ties in with the CRE/PFA nine-point plan and the attempts made by club's to bring... | |
 | Nicola Lacey, Celia Wells, Oliver Quick - Law - 2003 - 914 pages
...months or level 5 fine. (c) Section 5: Disorderly conduct (i) Conduct: As for s 4. (ii) Circumstance: Within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby, (iii) Mental element: Intends his words etc to be threatening, abusive or insulting, or is... | |
 | Helen Fenwick - Law - 2003 - 434 pages
...'threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour' which takes place 'in the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby'. These three terms must be given their ordinary meaning following Brutus v Cozens (1973).... | |
 | Raphael Cohen-Almagor - Democracy - 2006 - 298 pages
...display any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby. Under Section 18, it is an offense to display written material with the intent to stir up... | |
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