Join us in an evening of disgust and moral panic to raise funds to support
academic, legal and campaigning resources defending freedom of sexual expression and the right to personal privacy.
The evening will consist of film, talks and round table discussions by specialists including our solicitors, external campaigners and academics, then music and drinks until closing time!
When: Friday, February 7th 2014, form 7pm till late.
Where: Hackney Attic, 270 Mare Street, London, E8 1HE
Tickets: available on the Hackney Attic website: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Backlash_Moral_Panic_Film_Club
Single ticket price: £15
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The current moral panic has resulted in Backlash’ solicitors’ expertise being increasingly on demand to advise and often, represent, people charged with crimes that go from the possession of extreme images of consenting adults, to OPA charges of creators of artistic content and sexual discrimination at employment tribunals.
Here are some cases successfully defended by Backlash:
Michael Peacock (#ObscenityTrial) – sex worker, prosecuted for
distributing gay fisting pornography under the Obscene Publications Act 1959. Found not guilty by jury in
Southwark Crown Court in January 2012.
Simon Walsh (#Porntrial) – former aide to Mayor Boris Johnson and barrister specialising in police misconduct. Prosecuted for possession of images of a private adult sex party, in which he was a participant under the “extreme pornography” legislation in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. Found not guilty by jury in Kingston Crown Court in August 2012.
#TwinkTrial – A gay man of high professional standing, charged by CPS in November 2012 with possessing pornographic images of alleged underage participants. Case dismissed months after evidence of no underage participants shown, 1 November 2013.
Andrew Holland (# Tiger Porn ) – prosecution for the possession of a videos of an alleged tiger and a woman under the “extreme pornography” legislation in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. Case dismissed in Mold Crown Court in January 2010 after it was found that it was not a real tiger and the purpose of the video was comedy.
Who are Backlash UK?
Backlash is an umbrella organisation providing academic, legal and campaigning resources defending freedom of sexual expression. We support the rights of adults to participate in all consensual sexual activities and to watch, read and create any fictional interpretation of such in any media.
Backlash was created in 2005 to collate evidence for an informed debate on censorship and to oppose criminalisation of ownership of material just because the Home Office finds it abhorrent.
It continues to provide legal advice and defend those caught up in these new laws, raise awareness about why the laws are wrong, won’t work, and have unintended consequences.
http://www.backlash-uk.org.uk/
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VOTING FOR THE FILM IS OPEN!
(you can vote by posting on the event wall, via Facebook message, email or via Twitter).
1. A Serbian Film
2. Caligula
3. Deep Throat
4. Freaks
5. Dawn Of The Dead
6. Henry – Portrait Of A Serial Killer
7. L’Empire Des Sens (In The Realm Of The Senses)
8. Salo
9. The Devils
10. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
11. Tenebrae
12. The Human Centipede 2
Mark Carrigan 