By contrast, Starmer said that offences under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 should be prosecuted "robustly".
Exposing yourself in front of somebody else in public, for example, is already a crime under section 66 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, while the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 makes it an offence to engage in a course of conduct you know, or ought to know, amounts to harassment of another person.
As such, the protest is the latest of a series of flashpoints and incidents at British universities over the past year that have centred on issues of freedom of expression and protection from offence.
Article 20 provides protection from conviction for offences in certain respects, including the rights against ex post facto laws, double jeopardy and freedom from self-incrimination.
In Britain, where for years "sodomy" was a capital offence, fame and achievement were no protection from unjust laws.
The joint committee strongly criticised the enactment of a provision that withdrew refugee protection from people convicted of serious criminal offences as contrary to the UK's obligations under the refugee convention, as it allowed deportation even for crimes that were not "particularly serious".
In 1977, the introduction of both the Criminal Law Act and Protection from Eviction Act made it an offence to threaten or use violence to enter a property where someone is present and opposes the entry.
These include the Contempt of Court Act 1981, Protection from Harassment Act 1997, Malicious Communications Act 1988, Communications Act 2003, Offences Against the Person Act 1861, Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992, Crime and Disorder Act 1998, Computer Misuse Act 1990, and the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
Legislation pertaining to England and Wales that protects people from threatening, harassing, or grossly offensive speech online includes the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, the Public Order Act 1986, the Malicious Communications Act 1988, the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, and the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
And under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, deliberate mis-selling like this is a criminal offence.
