Regina v Stamford: 1972

The test of whether an article is indecent is an objective one. Words such as ‘insulting’, ‘serious’ or ‘obscene’, involve value judgments of which jurors are the arbiters par excellence without expert evidence.

Citations:

[1972] 2 QB 391

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedRegina v Collier CACD 11-Jun-2004
The defendant appealed a conviction of possession of indecent pseudo-photographs of children. He said that he had not seen the image, and that though he had reason to know the images were indecent, he had no reason to know that they were of . .
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Criminal Evidence

Updated: 13 May 2022; Ref: scu.198719