Online Abuse and the Real World
I am disappointed that I shall miss David Ormerod’s mini-lecture on 13 March as I shall be in Berlin. The event, ‘Abusive and Offensive Online Communications: the current criminal law and the need for reform’, focuses on the recent Law Commission Scoping Report on that topic. I was looking forward to the originally scheduled event because I had a question which I now cannot ask. The Report and a Summary can be accessed here . The Report is an admirable piece of work but I am very much aware that few will have time to read it in full; indeed, I suspect that, admirable though the Report is, it would have been more admirable if it was less exhaustive and a damn sight shorter. Even I, semi-retired and with a real interest in the dual subject matter, had to slog through it in stages. The Summary, which may well be more influential than the full report as I cannot imagine that policy-makers will read the full version, seems to me to drive its readers to the conclusion that greater reg...