[2007] UKHL 8

The expression "racial group" in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.28(4) was to be construed broadly. In the instant case, the appellant had rightly been convicted of using racially aggravated abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear or provoke violence, contrary to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.31(1)(a), where he had called three young Spanish women "bloody foreigners" and told them to "go back to your own country".

HL (Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Mance)

28/02/2007