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Examples of subject matter which have been the subject of changing views on criminality over time in various societies and countries include: Abortion (see: abortion law and abortion-rights movements) Breastfeeding in public; Drug possession, and recreational drug use (see: drug liberalization) Euthanasia (see: legality of euthanasia)
With increasing problems of town centre congestion, and demand for on-street parking, coupled with the pressures on police resources, and the low priority given by some police forces to the enforcement of parking regulations, the Road Traffic Act 1991 permitted local authorities to apply for the legal powers to take over the enforcement of on-street, as well as off-street, car parking ...
An Act to amend the law of England and Wales relating to suicide and for purposes connected therewith. Citation: 9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 60: Territorial extent England and Wales, except as regards the amendments made by Part II of the First Schedule and except that the Interments (felo de se) Act 1882, is repealed also for the Channel Islands. [1] Dates
Unlike earlier decriminalizations, repeal was not coincidental with the adoption of a new system of criminal law but rather by means of a specific law to repeal criminal sanctions on homosexuality, beginning with Sweden in 1944. [32] Decriminalization, initially limited to Europe and the Americas, spread globally in the 1980s. [33]
That December, following a public consultation, the Law Commission published 'Consent in the Criminal Law', a consultation paper which provisionally proposed the decriminalisation of consensual sadomasochistic acts, except in the case of 'seriously disabling injury'. [71] This proposal was never adopted into law.
The law was extended to Scotland in the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980, which took effect on 1 February 1981. [28] As a result of the 1981 European Court of Human Rights case Dudgeon v. United Kingdom, the law was extended to Northern Ireland in the Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982.
In 2016 the UK Government agreed to amend the Armed Forces Bill 2015-2016 [15] to make provision to repeal words in two sections of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 that made provision for a "homosexual act" to constitute a ground for discharging a member of His Majesty's armed forces from the service. This was as a result of ...
Rajnath Singh, a member of the ruling party BJP and the Home Minister, is on record shortly after the law was re-instated in 2013, claiming that his party is "unambiguously" in favour of the law, also claiming that "We will state (at an all-party meeting if it is called) that we support Section 377 because we believe that homosexuality is an ...