4 May 2007
BROOKER V POLICE SC 40/2005
- Citation
- BROOKER V POLICE SC 40/2005
- Court
- Supreme Court
Appeal allowed and conviction quashed because disorderly behaviour under s4(1)(a) of the Summary Offences Act must involve behaviour seriously disruptive of public order; a tendency merely to annoy or wound the feelings of the person targeted (including targeted protest at a home that is brief and non‑coercive) does not meet the statutory threshold, and Brooker's protest did not objectively disrupt public order.