Hansard & MP website links to relevant comments
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Progress of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
- House of Commons 3rd Reading on 9 Jan 2008 - No debate on the extreme porn law whatsoever.
Amendments
- House of Lords Amendments by Lord Wallace Of Tankerness and Baroness Miller Of Chilthorne Domer would remove references to "appears to", and allow a defence "that they reasonably believe that no person portrayed in the image was made to act against their will".
- House of Lords Amendments by Lord Hunt Of Kings Heath.
- House of Commons Amendments by Harry Cohen would remove references to "appears to"; and by David Heath, David Howarth and Jenny Willott would allow a defence "that the person reasonably believed that no person portrayed in the image was made to act against their will".
House of Commons Committee
- 16 Oct 2007 PM - Evidence from Jan Berry, Chairman, Police Federation of England and Wales
- 18 Oct 2007 PM - Evidence from Gareth Crossman, Policy Director, Liberty
- 22 Nov 2007 PM and also here - Discussion of MP Harry Cohen's Amendments (withdrawn, but later reintroduced)
(Note, a complete set of links for debates and amendments are also available at http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2007-08/criminaljusticeandimmigration.html .)
Older quotes of relevance to pornography and the law
9 Feb 2004 Early Day Motion
- Early Day Motion (also see Press Release from David Lepper)
House of Commons Debates
- House of Commons debate on 18 May 2004 (also available here).
13 Dec 2006 Written Answers : Pornographic Websites : Column 1120W
- Dr. Iddon[1](Bolton South East, Labour):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Obscene Publications Act 1959 applies to internet websites offering pornographic material, with particular reference to child protection on the internet; and if he will make a statement. [108336]
- Mr. Coaker[2](Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office):
The Obscene Publications Act 1959 applies to all published material whether on the Internet or offline. Material is published if it is circulated, distributed, sold, given, lent or offered to another person. It will be deemed to be obscene if the court finds that its effect is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely to read, see or hear it.
The Criminal Law Subgroup of the Home Secretary’s Task Force on Child Protection on the Internet has considered the implications of a judgement in the Court of Appeal (R v. Perrin [2002] EWCA crim 747) which indicated that where children are likely to access material of a degree of sexual explicitness equivalent to what is available to those aged 18 and above in a licensed sex shop, that material may be considered to be obscene and subject to prosecution. This applies to material which is not behind a suitable payment barrier or other accepted means of age verification, for example, material on the front page of pornography websites and non-commercial, user-generated material which is likely to be accessed by children and meets the threshold.
