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Redmond Bate v DPP

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Decided
  
23 July 1999

End date
  
July 23, 1999

Transcript(s)
  
Full text of judgment

Ruling court
  
High Court of Justice

In a black background, Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, From left The crest is a statant guardant lion has yellow body wearing the St Edward's Crown,himself on another representation of that crown, in the middle at the top represent the dexter supporter is a likewise crowned English lion, In the middle, The shield is quartered, depicting in the first and fourth quarters the three passant guardant lions of England, in the second, the rampant lion and double tressure flory-counterflory of Scotland, and in the third, a harp for Ireland. At the right is the sinister, a Scottish unicorn that has yellow horns and yellow hairs and a tail that has a crown on its neck with a gold chain. In the greenery below, a thistle, Tudor rose and shamrock are depicted, representing Scotland, England and Ireland respectively. This armorial achievement comprises the motto, in French, of English monarchs, Dieu et mon droit (God and my right), which has descended to the present royal family as well as the Garter circlet which surrounds the shield, inscribed with the Order's motto, in French, Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shame on him who thinks evil of it).

Citation(s)
  
[1999] Crim LR 998, [1999] 28 SLR 16, [1999] SLRYB 47, [2000] HRLR 249,

Judge sittings
  
Stephen Sedley, Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury

Redmond-Bate v Director of Public Prosecutions [1999] EWHC Admin 733, was a case heard before the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court regarding freedom of speech and breach of the peace. The decision upheld the freedom to express lawful matters in a way which other people might take great exception to; that the right to free speech, enshrined in Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, includes the right to be offensive; and a police officer has no right to call upon a citizen to desist from lawful conduct. That others might react unlawfully does not itself render the actions of the speaker unlawful.

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