[2025] EWCA Crim 1411

R -v- UCS

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before:

LORD JUSTICE STUART-SMITH

MR JUSTICE BRYAN

and

HIS HONOUR JUDGE JOHN LODGE

(Sitting as a Judge of the CACD)

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Between:

REX

-v-

UCS

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REFERENCE BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER s.36 CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 1988

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Ms G White appeared on behalf of the Solicitor General

Mr M McNiff appeared on behalf of the Offender

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The provisions of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 apply to these offences. Under those provisions, where a sexual offence has been committed against a person, no matter relating to that person shall during that person’s lifetime be included in any publication if it is likely to lead members of the public to identify that person as the victim of that offence.

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Approved Judgment