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Pig in a wig!! Right you ****ing fannies it’s game on

Woke folk, beware! Freedom of speech includes the right to offend, say judges in landmark ruling
By Daily Mail Reporter and Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter For Mailonline 01:21, 18 Dec 2020 , updated 08:05, 18 Dec 2020

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Victory in the war on woke: Judges' landmark ruling in case of mother who called trans woman 'he' on Twitter means freedom of speech DOES includes the 'right to offend'

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Judges have insisted that freedom of speech includes the 'right to offend' in a landmark ruling which could help to turn the tide on 'woke' intolerance after a feminist who called a transgender woman a 'pig in a wig' and a 'man' was cleared.

Presiding over a case in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby said: 'Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.'


They added that 'free speech encompasses the right to offend, and indeed to abuse another'. The judgment from two senior members of the judiciary will set a precedent for future cases involving freedom of speech.

The ruling has emerged only now, but came in the successful appeal decided last week in favour of mother-of-two Kate Scottow, from Hitchin in Hertfordshire, after she had been found guilty under the 2003 Communications Act earlier in the year.

Miss Scottow told The Daily Telegraph: 'It was necessary to enshrine one of the most fundamental rights of every living being in a democratic society – the right to freedom of speech that is now routinely attacked...' But Miss Hayden said: 'This is... a kick in the teeth to the entire LGBT community.'

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The ruling has emerged only now, but came in the successful appeal decided last week in favour of mother-of-two Ms Scottow, from Hitchin in Hertfordshire. She was accused of describing Stephanie Hayden (pictured), a transgender woman, as a 'pig in a wig' alongside a number of offensive and upsetting tweets

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The ruling has emerged only now, but came in the successful appeal decided last week in favour of mother-of-two Kate Scottow, from Hitchin in Hertfordshire, a

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Presiding over a case in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby said: ‘Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.’ Pictured, supporters of Kate Scottow protesting outside court earlier this year

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Presiding over a case in the UK's Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean (pictured) and Mr Justice Warby said: 'Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.'

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Presiding over a case in the UK's Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby (pictured) said: 'Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.'

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Ms Hayden (pictured) had insisted Ms Scottow was bound by law to refer to her as a woman. She argued that the defendant was guilty of 'harassment' and had 'misgendered' her just 'to annoy people like me'
Miss Scottow was arrested in 2018 and taken from her children and into custody after referring to trans woman Stefanie Hayden as a man, a 'racist' and a 'pig in the wig'. Miss Hayden, 47, reported the online remarks to police.

She had been arrested by three police officers in 2019 at her home in Pirton near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in front of her daughter, 10, and son, 20 months. Boris Johnson later called it an abuse of power.

In February this year radical feminist Miss Scottow, 40, was handed a two-year conditional discharge, and ordered to pay £1,000 compensation, with district judge Margaret Dodds telling her: 'Your comments contributed nothing to a debate. We teach children to be kind to each other and not to call each other names in the playground.'

But, overturning the decision, Mr Justice Warby explained that the relevant parts of the Communications Act 'were not intended by Parliament to criminalise forms of expression, the content of which is no worse than annoying or inconvenient in nature'.

Mr Justice Warby also suggested that the prosecution had been an 'unjustified state interference with free speech'.

Lord Justice Bean said the appeal illustrated the need for decision-makers in the criminal justice system to have regard to issues of freedom of speech.

The two appeal judges, who outlined their reasoning in a written ruling published on Wednesday, said prosecutors had not obtained 'all the contextual material for the offending messages', and had presented the case in a 'somewhat disorderly way' at the trial.

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Complaints made by Stephanie Hayden led to both to the arrest of, and injunction against, Mrs Scottow

 

That's a kick in the bollocks for her.

 

She’ll be cut up about it I don’t doubt

 

Him

 

Wonder if they had to deep clean the TARDIS after?

 

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Bloody hell!!!!

 

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