Submitted on Friday 11th October 2019
Rejected on Monday 14th October 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
reinstate and reinforce sedition as a criminal offence
Sedition was a common law offence in the UK. ... In 1977, a Law Commission working paper recommended that the common law offence of sedition in England and Wales be abolished. They said that they thought that this offence was redundant and that it was not necessary to have any offence of sedition...
In 1977, a Law Commission working paper recommended that the common law offence of sedition in England and Wales be abolished. They said that they thought that this offence was redundant and that it was not necessary to have any offence of sedition.[41] However this proposal was not implemented until 2009, when sedition and seditious libel (as common law offences) were abolished by section 73 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We're not sure what acts you would like to be covered by this new lawThe 1977 Law Commission report found that "[t]here is probably no offence properly described as "sedition" in English law" and " there is likely to be a sufficient range of other offences covering conduct amounting to sedition".
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