The court stressed that any physical obstruction of a public place must be accompanied by the element of " without a lawful excuse " in order to constitute an offence.
12.
Police officers, and other servants of the Crown, have lawful excuse to possess and use PAVA . They are therefore exempt from prosecution under this act and section.
13.
He was subsequently fined ?5 by the Victorian Supreme Court for an offence against the Evidence Act 1928 ( Vict ) for refusing to answer questions without a lawful excuse.
14.
Judge Miriam Reynolds had agreed with the defence on day nine of the proceedings, after extensive submissions and legal argument, on the applicability of the statutory lawful excuse defence.
15.
"Nothing you have so far advanced before me constitutes lawful excuse, " said the magistrate, Geoffrey Breen, who fined her 400 pounds ( dlrs 650 ).
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In December 2008 Greenpeace received a letter from the Crown Prosecution Service revealing that the Court of Appeal in an effort to remove the defence of lawful excuse'from activists.
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If, on the other hand, the child did not consent, the consent of the person having custody or care and control of the child may support a defence of lawful excuse.
18.
The jury, despite nearly four hours of deliberation and a direction from the judge that it could decide by majority, failed to agree on whether or not he had " lawful excuse ".
19.
A woman was subsequently arrested on suspicion of preventing the burial of a body without lawful excuse, but a few months later the Crown Prosecution Service announced that there was insufficient evidence to press charges.
20.
The jury accepted their defence of lawful excuse action undertaken to prevent a much worse crime because the company manufactured and sold certain components used by the Israeli military, notably in its assault on Gaza.
