28 May 2014
28 May 2014
Hate Crime: Should the Current Offences be Extended?
"OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT LAW 1.4
At present, the police and the Crown Prosecution Service (“CPS”) record as a “hate crime” any crime perceived by t he victim or another person to have been motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person’s race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity.
Although “hate crimes” are recorded for all five of these “protected characteristics”, the criminal offences that specifically deal with hate crime only cover some of the characteristics."
"CHAPTER 6: DEFINING THE AGGRAVATED OFFENCES 8.7
We recommend that the definition of disability in any new aggravated offences should be the definition in section 146(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003: “any mental or physical impairment”."
http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/docs/lc348_hate_crime.pdf
http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/docs/lc348_hate_crime_english_summary.pdf
http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/docs/lc348_analysis_of_responses.pdf
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http://www.crimeline.info/news/hate-crime-should-the-current-offences-be-extended
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28 May 2014
UK Law Commission Wants Hate Crime Law Extended To Transsexuals And Disabled
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/28/The-Law-Commission-Proposes-Extension-Of-Hate-Crime
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However, even in confirming this, the 'review', does not go, even half-way, to re-balancing the situation.
The OSC
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