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Subscribe to PNLD It has recently been reported that an unprecedented number of women are being investigated by the police for illegally procuring an abortion. Abortion is an offence, and exceptions apply to the medical termination of pregnancies under specific conditions and up to a certain time during the pregnancy.
PNLD Legal Adviser, Shelley Gregory, explores the legal position in relation to abortions and when it would be in the public interest to prosecute.
Where persons are dispersed under section 35 of the Anti-social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014 as they are likely to commit crime in the area, what power is there to obtain name and address to put on the section 35 dispersal?
Would failure to provide details class as non-compliance and therefore result in ability to arrest?
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