6 May 2011
MORSE v THE POLICE SC 10/2010
- Citation
- MORSE v THE POLICE SC 10/2010
- Court
- Supreme Court
The appeal is allowed and the conviction quashed because s4(1)(a) must be read as a public‑order provision: "offensive" and "disorderly" are complementary and require behaviour that objectively disrupts or provokes disruption of public order; the trial applied an incorrect test focusing on subjective offence to attendees and the evidence does not safely establish the required public‑order disruption.