People can be prosecuted for not working.
We can be prosecuted for the former and sued for the latter.
But times changed, and today a mother can be prosecuted for leaving her child.
At stake is whether wireless consumers can be prosecuted for what, not long ago, was considered a routine practice.
"If you're caught taking a photograph, even as a staff member, you can be prosecuted for that.
As the law stands, only the gamekeepers who carry out these killings can be prosecuted for them.
Another, which criminalises the witting spread of disease, means that people who know they are HIV-positive can be prosecuted for having sex, even with a condom.
He recounts the history of the well-intentioned laws under which people in many states can be prosecuted for "abuse by omission".
But people can be prosecuted for HIV transmission under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 OAPA 18611), for grievous bodily harm.
Under the law as it stood in 1975, he added, "the only thing this guy can be prosecuted for is being a juvenile delinquent".
"That's a breach of planning permission – so, a criminal offence – and you can be prosecuted for it in the magistrate's court," says Peaker.
