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Law digests: 18 February 2022

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18 February 2022
Issue: 7967 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Criminal law

Pwr v Director of Public Prosecutions; Akdogan and another v Director of ­Public Prosecutions [2022] UKSC 2, [2022] All ER (D) 84 (Jan)

The Supreme Court (the court) held that s 13(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000 (TA 2000), which provided that it was a criminal offence for a person in a public place to carry or display an article ‘in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion that he is a member or supporter of a proscribed organisation’, was a strict liability offence. Further, the court ruled that s 13(1) was compatible with art 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Accordingly, the court dismissed the appellants’ appeal against the Divisional Court’s decision, dismissing their appeal by way of case stated, concerning their conviction for an offence under TA 2000 s 13(1), namely carrying a flag of the Kurdistan Workers Party (an organisation proscribed under TA 2000) during a demonstration against the perceived actions of the Turkish state in north-eastern Syria.

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