HOW police record ‘hate incidents’ against transgender people has a ‘real and substantial chilling effect’ on people’s freedom of speech, the High Court heard yesterday.
Former officer Harry Miller was contacted by Humberside Police after a member of the
The “right to be offended” does not exist, a judge has said, as the High Court hears that British police forces are recording hate incidents even if there is no evidence that they took place.
Mr Justice Knowles made
“Police officers cannot take it upon themselves to act as the custodians of proper opinion”
If there is an event that captures the lunacies of modern life, it is a hearing currently taking place in the High Court in
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