Professor Andrew Tettenborn of our Legal Advisory Council wrote of the ruling:Īs a by-product, pressure groups and the easily offended will find it more difficult to silence those they do not like by reporting them to the police. You can also watch our legal officer Karolien Celie explain the importance of the ruling here. You can read our full press release here and the judgment itself here. The Court of Appeal has thankfully sounded the alarm.” Sarah Phillimore and Rob Jessel said the case capped off a year that will be remembered for having turned the tide against the official imposition of trans orthodoxy. The Times welcomed the verdict with an editorial which concluded: “Once society punishes people for having the wrong opinions, there is no limit to the incursions on freedom that this seemingly benign principle will allow. They should be policing our streets, not our tweets.” Harry spoke to Spiked following his victory. Toby wrote in Mail+: “When Humberside Police tried to intimidate Harry Miller, they picked on the wrong guy. The ruling was widely reported by the Times, BBC, Sun, UnHerd and the Guardian, and our support for Harry’s case was noted in ConservativeHome and the Spectator. Thanks to his courage and tenacity, we can all rest a little easier in our beds tonight, knowing the police are not about to knock on our doors because we’ve made an inappropriate joke on Twitter. The Free Speech Union is proud to have played a part in winning this landmark victory, but the lion’s share of the credit must go to Harry Miller. Our General Secretary Toby Young was quoted in the Daily Mail and by Guido Fawkes: Had he lost and had to pay the other side’s costs, we had pledged to help with that bill, but thankfully that won’t be necessary. We are proud to back Harry Miller in this case. The court ruled that the recording of NCHIs is an unlawful interference in freedom of speech and a breach of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Harry first challenged this in the High Court, won a partial victory, then challenged an aspect of that verdict – the bit that said there was nothing unlawful about the recording of NCHIs – in the Court of Appeal and won a second victory. A police officer visited his house, told him to “check his thinking”, and an NCHI was recorded against his name. Miller was reported to the police for transphobia in 2019 after tweeting a piece of feminist doggerel that sent up trans women. Free speech triumph as Court of Appeal rules recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents’ is unlawfulįormer police officer Harry Miller has won a landmark legal battle this week against the police recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHIs) against innocent people for things they have said lawfully.
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