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May 3, 2010 · The High Court ruled that buggery was a statutory, rather than a common law, offence in a judicial review application by the DPP of a decision of Judge Devins in the District Court not to...
an act to amend the law in relation to sexual offences and for that purpose to amend the offences against the person act, 1861, in relation to buggery; to amend the criminal law amendment acts, 1885 to 1935; to repeal the vagrancy act, 1898, and certain provisions of certain other enactments relating to sexual offences and to provide for ...
Buggery of persons under 17 years of age. 3. —A person who commits or attempts to commit an act of buggery with a person under the age of 17 years (other than a person to whom he is married or to whom he believes with reasonable cause he is married) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction on indictment to—
In Ireland today all contact of a sexual nature between males is illegal and “wrongdoers” are liable to arrest, charge and imprisonment.
The Offences against the Persons Act 1861 made buggery a crime, subject on conviction, to imprisonment up to for life. Buggery applies equally to males and females. It covered sodomy between males and females and intercourse between people and animals. Consent was not a defence.
Oct 17, 2019 · While the criminal offence of buggery has been abolished in English and Northern Irish law, references to buggery continue to endure in a range of statutes which, for example, make provision for granting anonymity to people who allege they are victims of the offence,152 ensure the continuity of sexual offences law in respect of criminal justice ...
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Aug 17, 2001 · The offence of buggery, which has been on the statute books in Northern Ireland since 1861, is no longer a crime in the North. Belfast High Court judge Mr Justice Kerr ruled that the law...
