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- Seditious_libel abstract "Sedition and seditious libel were criminal offences under English common law, but are still criminal offences in Canada, where common law tradition yet persists. Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order: if the statement is in writing or some other permanent form it is seditious libel. Libel denotes a printed form of communication such as writing or drawing.A statement is seditious if it "brings into hatred or contempt" either the Queen or her heirs, the government and constitution, either House of Parliament, the administration of justice, if it incites people to attempt to change any matter of Church or State established by law (except by lawful means), or if it promotes discontent among or hostility between British subjects. A person is only guilty of the offence if they have printed words or images and intend any of the above outcomes. Proving that the statement is true is not a defence. The common law offence was punishable in the UK with life imprisonment, and seems to have been replaced by the Terrorism Act 2000, where the act proscribes "threat of action... designed... to intimidate the public or a section of the public". As of 2014, violation of section 59 of the Criminal Code of Canada attracted a maximum term in prison of 14 years, and the broader sedition was defined in part as follows: 59(4) Without limiting the generality of the meaning of the expression “seditious intention”, every one shall be presumed to have a seditious intention who (a) teaches or advocates, or (b) publishes or circulates any writing that advocates, the use, without the authority of law, of force as a means of accomplishing a governmental change within Canada.so that the simple communication of seditious intent would in theory be sufficient grounds on which to convict. The American scholar, Leonard W. Levy, argues that seditious libel "has always been an accordion-like concept, expandable or contractible at the whim of judges."".
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- Seditious_libel subject Category:English_law.
- Seditious_libel subject Category:Sedition.
- Seditious_libel comment "Sedition and seditious libel were criminal offences under English common law, but are still criminal offences in Canada, where common law tradition yet persists. Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order: if the statement is in writing or some other permanent form it is seditious libel.".
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