This was an expurgated version due to the laws regarding obscene publication in effect at the time.

He was active in the campaign against censorship and appeared as an expert witness for the defence of several obscene publications trials.

Obscene publications were, historically, something for the canon law; the first prosecution in a court of common law was not until 1727.

It was later successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act in 1984.

Works judged to be illegal under the Obscene Publications Act 1959.

Religious zealots have successfully banned the sale of what they consider obscene publications from many magazine racks.

One of the biggest problems the newspaper faced was that, although it was not an obscene publication, sale outlets were hard to find.

China's authorities routinely insist that "obscene publications," a loosely defined term, provoke criminality.

He got Margaret Sanger's books on birth control banned and sent her husband to jail for selling these obscene publications.

The liberal interlude, as they call it, where laws such as those over obscene publications were allowed to lie fallow, soon came to an end.

This section amends the Obscene Publications Act 1959.

Curll's experience with the censors was uncommon though, and prosecutions based on obscene publications remained a rarity.

It was not until 1857, in fact, that the British House of Commons enacted a statute specifically directed against obscene publications.

"Another Obscene Publication"

There is also expected to be an effort to broaden Britain's Obscene Publications Act to cover broacasting.

As that court noted, distinguishing obscene publications on this basis does not suggest discrimination on the basis of the message conveyed.

It has been removed from display after a visit to Tate Modern by officers from the obscene publications unit of the Metropolitan police.

Sub section (2) of it punishes a variety of acts concerning obscene publication and obscene objects.

In the late 1960's the head of the Obscene Publications Squad sponsored a convicted pornographer as a member of his own lodge.

The Metropolitan police said: "Officers from the obscene publications unit met with staff at Tate Modern .

The Court rules that ONE: The Homosexual Magazine was not an obscene publication.

"The question here is whether the use by Missouri in this case of the search and seizure power to suppress obscene publications involved abuses inimical to protected expression."

During the life of Australian Oz Sharp, Neville and Walsh were twice charged with printing an obscene publication.

During the 60's and with improved technology its focus has moved onto criminal activity, including drugs, criminal control of clubs and brothels and the obscene publications industry.

Another important area of discretionary power arises in the setting up of special squads - fraud, obscene publications, robbery and so on- to concentrate on particular crimes.