Down with thoughtcrime!
Geeklawyer picked up the excellent news that Court of Appeal has overturned the convictions of several young men who downloaded extremist material from the internet.
The ruling means that the prosecution will now have to prove intent as well as proving that illicit material was downloaded. This, frankly, is just so obvious that it beggars belief that it wasn’t in the 2000 Act.
The CPS, in their wisdom, are considering whether to appeal: one hopes that they are flogging a dead horse, but unfortunately one can never be sure.
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