From: Rusty�Bullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Yes Steve, if on a road in a public place, the inside of a car is a public
>place. That's why people carrying knives, baseball bats, truncheons etc in
>their cars get arrested.
>Sorry I can't remember the authority for this decision.
>Richard
The notion that the inside of a car is a "public place" really needs testing
in the High Court.
Interestingly the High Court recently decided that the inside of a public
telephone kiosk was NOT a public place. The decision was against
charges of "littering a public place", brought against a man in the employ
of prostitutes, caught placing business cards in a BT phone box. Does
this mean that a carelessly discarded crisp packet within the confines of
your car could see you charged with littering ? <G>
Similarly perverse is the finding of some courts that a lock knife is a
fixed
bladed knife, if I recall correctly the judge in the case declared "for the
purposes of the act a lock knife shall be considered fixed blade".
It would follow that caravans should be considered "dwellings" because
they have retractable legs that allow them to be fixed in place.
Rusty
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Caravans are dwellings when permanently set in place, but not while
being towed. That much I can recall accurately.
Steve.
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