The Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Act 2007 is an Act of Parliament passed in New Zealand in 2007. It removed the crime of sedition from...
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The Sedition Act 1948 (Malay: Akta Hasutan 1948) in Malaysia is a law prohibiting discourse deemed as seditious. The act was originally enacted by the...
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November that year the Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act was passed. February 1910 saw the introduction of Indian Press Act which allowed Provincial governments...
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Besides treason, the 1661 Act created other offences designed to protect the national security. These offences required the evidence of two witnesses or a confession...
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importation of seditious publications. The essential ingredient of any offence under the Act was the finding of a "seditious tendency", and the intention of the...
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of the Shipping Offences Act 1793 section 23 of the Seditious Meetings Act 1817 section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 Section 11 – Advance notice of...
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"Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Act 2018 – No. C37 of 2018 – Houses of the Oireachtas"...
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English criminal law (redirect from Criminal offence in England or Wales)
section 2 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 Offences under section 7 of the Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880 Offences under section 59 of the...
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Jury nullification (redirect from Fully Informed Jury Amendment)
of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed Prohibition and the Eighteenth Amendment. In a well-known example of jury nullification, at the end of Wild...
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