But Was She Wearing A Hoodie At The Time?

Mark Stephens on The Times Law Blog on the Orgasmic Asbo granted this week in Newcastle.

I started several paragraphs but have to admit to being somewhat lost for words. I mean, what are the terms of the ASBO? "You shall not have a noisy orgasm"? Breach of an ASBO is, of course, a criminal offence.

In the mean time, Chris Bertram on Crooked Timber, and Gary Slapper and Mark Stephens (again, and rather more succinctly than Slapper) put the boot in on Blair's plans to "rebalance the criminal justice system", reminding him of this little thing called the presumption of innocence, and the difference between a suspect and a convicted criminal.