Legal principles go out the window?
I have always been under the impression that it was a principle of English law that the law should be objective, understandable and accessible to ordinary people. The provisions in the CJIA (as I suppose we should be calling it from tomorrow) relating to "extreme pornography" are none of these things. They are muddled, badly drafted and rely on a subjective assessment of the image in question.
Liz Longhurst's or Martin Salter's assessment of whether an image "is grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character" is probably going to be very different to mine. So how do I know whether an image I may possess will be illegal? In short, I don't and, quite frankly, a law which leaves me in that position should not be passing on to our statute books.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
