Tag: Offensive Behaviour and Threatening Communications Act
OBFA vote and High Court rulings demonstrate limits of modern democracy
Commentary by Derek Bateman
It’s the struggle between people and power…the state versus the citizen. It could be the courts or the politicians, no matter....
Offensive Behaviour: the case for the SNP repealing their own act
Bernard Thompson presents the argument for repeal of a controversial law
How does the SNP government avoid an early defeat? By repealing the Offensive Behaviour...
Anti-sectarian law, cobbled together, may be first victim of Holyrood opposition...
By Patience Magill
The controversial Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act may be one of the first victims of the SNP's failure to retain its Holyrood...