The Weekly Law Reports
[2003] 3 WLR 1153
Court of Appeal
Attorney General's Reference (No 4 of 2002)
[2003] EWCA Crim 762
2003 Feb 25;
March 21
March 21
Latham LJ, Hunt and Hedley JJ
Crime
— Belonging to proscribed organisation
— Statutory defence
— Defence to prove lack of participation in organisation's activities while proscribed
— Whether incompatible with presumption of innocence and right to freedom of expression
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, arts 6(2), 10
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Terrorism Act 2000 (c 11), s. 11