Inherent Rights: Freedom Of Speech

Abstract: 9 pages in length. People "cannot stifle free speech because [they] don't want to hear it" (Mass, 2005, p. 33) in a country where liberty and personal rights are as essential to one's existence as are the life-sustaining elements of food and water. According to a judgment in the 1999 Redmond-Bate v DPP case, Lord Justice Sedley contended that free speech consists of "not only the inoffensive, but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative, provided that it did not tend to provoke violence" (Anonymous, 2003). Bibliography lists 10 sources.

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Catagory: Supreme Court & Constitutional Law

Subcatagory: Law & Legal Systems

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