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Guidance requiring police officers to record hate incidents “without any evidence of hate” unlawfully restricts freedom of speech, the court of appeal has heard.
Lawyers for Harry Miller, a former police officer who was visited at work by other officers over alleged transphobia, told the judges the College of Policing’s guidance went too far.
“A policy that mandates the recording of a ‘hate incident’ without there having to be any evidence of hate is quintessentially irrational and unreasonable as a matter of common law,” his lawyer Ian Wise QC told the court in written submissions.
A 15-year-old girl s legal challenge against the Crown Prosecution Service for allegedly adopting a pro-trans ideology has been thrown out by a judge.
The teenager, referred to only as A, tried to bring a case to the High Court claiming that the CPS affiliation with LGBT charity Stonewall meant it could be biased when dealing with cases involving transgender issues.
She argued that the criminal prosecutions agency of England and Wales had compromised its independence by affiliating with Stonewall s Diversity Champions programme.
At a remote hearing this afternoon, Mr Justice Cavanagh refused her challenge and ruled her proposed judicial review unarguable .