VICTORY!
The Reform Clause 1 campaign succeeded in its aim to amend Clause 1. The change is now incorporated in Section 1 of the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014 and came into force in October 2014.
MEDIA COVERAGE OF LORDS VOTE VICTORY
January 10, 2014Peers block law on being annoying in public
BBC News
Coalition defeated over ‘annoyance’ clampdown
politics.co.uk
The ‘annoyance law’: what it would mean
MSN News
Finally, the law that bans absolutely everything
The Times (£)
Lords reject government’s antisocial, crime and policing bill
The Guardian
Government defeated as peers vote to reform Clause 1
National Secular Society
A win! Peers vote to protect free speech
The Christian Institute
The Quiet and Sorry Death of Liberalism, Part CCXXXIV
The Spectator
A blank cheque to police public space
Spiked
Ministers won’t give up on law targeting ‘annoying’ people
politics.co.uk
The Government Tried To Make Being ‘Annoying’ Illegal, It Failed
Huffington Post