A victory for free speech: Lords vote to axe law banning insults that had led to countless arrests of ordinary people
Section 5 of the Public Order Act criminalised ‘insulting’ words and behaviour
But it had not defined what the term meant, leading to an abuse of the law
A move by Lord Dear, a former West Midlands chief constable, was backed by 150 votes to 54
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