‘A university graduate who posted footage of himself online dressed in a Ku Klux Klan costume hanging a life-sized golliwog doll has been jailed for 12 months.’
The Guardian, 8th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A Jamaican man who commuted to London every day to sell crack on a council estate has used human rights laws to stop a deportation order.’
Daily Telegraph, 7th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The so-called Naked Rambler has been jailed for 16 months after a jury took just two minutes to find him guilty of breaching an antisocial behaviour order designed to prevent him from appearing nude in public.’
The Guardian, 6th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A convicted prisoner, with a history of violence against women, has become the first person to be issued with a CRASBO while still in jail.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A ‘flamboyantly’ dressed pensioner who would leave his sheltered housing to sell crack cocaine in Soho, London has been jailed.”
The Independent, 15th October 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The woman appointed by David Cameron to represent victims of crime, whose husband was killed by a gang of youths, has criticised two key aspects of the Government’s new antisocial behaviour reforms.”
The Independent, 23rd June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former serviceman has been jailed for trying to set fire to a Denbighshire mosque after hearing about the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in London.”
BBC News, 20th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The ‘naked rambler’ has been jailed for 11 months after being found guilty of breaching an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) banning him from being naked in public just minutes after it was imposed.”
The Independent, 19th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“If the conditions in section 34 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 were met then an injunction to prevent gang-related violence was appropriate. The court would not be required to ask itself whether an anti-social behaviour order under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 would have provided an adequate remedy.”
WLR Daily, 17th May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“In February 2011 the Home Office produced the consultation document ‘More Effective Responses to Anti-Social Behaviour’ – a response to the earlier document ‘The Coalition: our programme for government’.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 12th April 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“A man known as ‘the naked rambler’ has been given an interim Anti-social
Behaviour Order (Asbo) banning him from going nude in public places.”
BBC News, 28th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been found guilty of murdering his friend at a house party almost 10 years after he became Britain’s youngest ever ASBO holder.”
The Independent, 12th February 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A nagging wife has been given an ASBO after keeping neighbours awake for three
years with her constant quibbling.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Birmingham CC v Ashton is a case which illustrates the difficulty that judges face when they are invited to make possession orders on the grounds of nuisance and anti-social behaviour against tenants with mental health problems.”
NearlyLegal, 16th December 2012
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“Did historic ASB by the daughter of a former evicted tenant allow the local authority to refuse to allow her accommodation in the same area? This was the issue in this judicial review of Bolton-at-Home’s (‘Bolton’) decision to refuse a property to Ms Carney.”
NearlyLegal, 21st October 2012
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“A man who had a ‘bomb workshop’ at his Hull home has been given a 10-year anti-social behaviour order banning him from owning certain fireworks.”
BBC News, 3rd September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who urinated on a plaque in a war memorial in South Gloucestershire and scratched the word “prick” into the pavement has been jailed for 11 weeks.”
The Independent, 6th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man barred from protesting at the site of an Olympic basketball training facility has had his banning order extended by two years.”
BBC News, 19th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Government has now issued its White Paper on the much-heralded changes to the methods presently used to tackle anti-social behaviour.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 24th May 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“The asbo is dead – but a brace of souped-up new jargon is no shortcut to solving the problem of antisocial behaviour.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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