[2010] EWHC 340 (Admin)

A single act of soliciting a woman for prostitution within a recognised vice area by a male on foot could not amount to the common law offence of public nuisance. Central to the concept of public nuisance was common injury to members of the public, and an individual single act, even when committed in a vice area, did not fulfil the requirement of endangering the comfort of the public as a whole and obstructing the exercise or enjoyment of their rights.

DC (Elias LJ, Calvert Smith J)

10/02/2010