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conn75 wrote:Nah, you just need to be a good runner...
gap74 wrote:Hmm, find this a somewhat worrying precedent....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scot ... 651107.stm
AlanM wrote:The guy plead guilty and as such I wouldn't read too much into it.
AlanM wrote:As the chap plead guilty there was no legal test, and with a guilty plea the Sheriff had to impose some form of punishment and make a statement condemning his actions.
If he'd plead not guilty and as he hadn't actually done anything wrong the chances were that he would have been found not guilty as the prosecution would have had to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that he had placed the victim "in a state of fear and alarm" - not an easy task
I'm sure that he wasn't fully aware of Scot's Law and was poorly advised but I meant that from a photographer's point of view that we shouldn't read too much into this conviction
onyirtodd wrote:I'm not so sure. Sheriff Kenneth Hogg said.............. "The lady concerned was entitled to her privacy and not to have a passing stranger take a photograph,".
That sounds as if anyone else dischuffed at having their picture taken could make the same complaint and expect the courts to be supportive.
onyirtodd wrote:AlanM wrote:As the chap plead guilty there was no legal test, and with a guilty plea the Sheriff had to impose some form of punishment and make a statement condemning his actions.
If he'd plead not guilty and as he hadn't actually done anything wrong the chances were that he would have been found not guilty as the prosecution would have had to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that he had placed the victim "in a state of fear and alarm" - not an easy task
I'm sure that he wasn't fully aware of Scot's Law and was poorly advised but I meant that from a photographer's point of view that we shouldn't read too much into this conviction
I'm not so sure. Sheriff Kenneth Hogg said.............. "The lady concerned was entitled to her privacy and not to have a passing stranger take a photograph,".
That sounds as if anyone else dischuffed at having their picture taken could make the same complaint and expect the courts to be supportive.
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