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Modernising Communications Offences: A final report

皇冠体育app Law Commission has published recommendations to address the harms arising from online abuse.

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皇冠体育app Law Commission has published recommendations to address the harms arising from online abuse. 皇冠体育app recommendations include a coherent set of communications offences to more effectively target harmful communications while increasing protection for freedom of expression.

皇冠体育app recommendations, which have been laid in Parliament, would reform the 鈥渃ommunications offences鈥� found in section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 (鈥淢CA 1988鈥�) and section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 (鈥淐A 2003鈥�). 皇冠体育appse offences do not provide consistent protection from harm and in some instances disproportionately interfere with freedom of expression.

皇冠体育app reforms would address the harms arising from online abuse by modernising the existing communications offences, ensuring that the law is clearer and that it effectively targets serious harm and criminality. 皇冠体育app recommendations aim to do this in a proportionate way in order to protect freedom of expression. 皇冠体育appy also seek to 鈥渇uture-proof鈥� the law in this area as much as possible by not confining the offences to any particular mode or type of communication.

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Published 21 July 2021

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