this article: Regina v. Hicklin The Hicklin test is a legal test for obscenity established by the English case R. v Hicklin (1868). At issue was the...

community are offended by, as obscenity was defined by the previous test, the Hicklin test, stemming from the English precedent. In practice, pornography showing...

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articulated in a famous British case, Regina v. Hicklin, [1868] L. R. 3 Q. B. 360. The Hicklin test defined material as obscene if it tended "to deprave...

" stated in 1868 by Lord Justice Cockburn, in Regina v. Hicklin, now known as the Hicklin test. There have been several Acts of Parliament of this name:...

853). Hicklin test (1868): the effect of isolated passages upon the most susceptible persons. (British common law, cited in Regina v. Hicklin, 1868....

determine. For implementing the Comstock act, the US courts used the British Hicklin test to define obscenity, the definition of which was first proposed in 1868...

of an especially susceptible person, the court rejected applying the Hicklin test as a means of determining whether material is obscene, and the ruling...

can be regarded as obscene and established important tests of obscenity such as the Hicklin test. The court upheld the conviction: When everything said...

Benjamin Hicklin JP (11 November 1816 – 16 March 1909) was an English licensed carrier, farmer, solicitor and Borough Magistrate, who served as Mayor...

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as had been articulated in a famous British case, Regina v. Hicklin (1868). The Hicklin test defined material as obscene if it tended "to deprave or corrupt...

profile seizures under the Act relied on this interpretation. Known as the Hicklin test no cognisance was taken of the literary merit of a book or on the extent...

the companies having to recut their films rather than the boards. The Hicklin test was used as the standard for film censorship until 1959, when the Criminal...

Sikri, the decision rejected the outdated Hicklin test in favor of the more progressive "community standards test," aligning Indian jurisprudence with contemporary...

judgment In his judgement, issued on 16 November, Biron applied the Hicklin test of obscenity: a work was obscene if it tended to "deprave and corrupt...

determination of obscenity in the United States originally followed the Hicklin test, which applied to any material which had the tendency to "deprave and...

constitutionality of Section 292 and established the applicability of the Hicklin Test in India for determining obscenity, significantly influencing the country's...

the Court authored by William J. Brennan Jr. The Court repudiated the Hicklin test and defined obscenity more strictly, as material whose "dominant theme...

was heavily flawed, for several reasons. One was that the "Hicklin test", from R v Hicklin, was both unduly narrow and unyielding; it did not, for example...

go forward on the basis of the Hicklin test, which stemmed back to a seminal English decision of 1868, Regina v. Hicklin. In his opinion, Hand recommended...

whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." This test became known as the Hicklin test and allowed portions of a suspect work to be judged independently...

imported films, citing their damage to a pro-British sentiment. The Hicklin test was used as the standard for film censorship until 1959, when the Criminal...

established in the 1868 English case of Regina v. Hicklin. In this case, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn defined the "test of obscenity" as "whether the tendency of...

attorney at law in 1832. Hicklin, the son, is remembered through the Hicklin test, a legal definition of obscenity. In the 1832 novel The Pickwick Papers...

its first year. In the United States, as in the United Kingdom, the Hicklin test of obscenity applied, but New York case law had established that books...

legal case Regina v. Hicklin on interpretation of the word "obscene" in the Obscene Publications Act 1857, applying the "Hicklin test": that any part of...

couples. India's obscenity laws have also been frequently compared to the Hicklin test. Despite demands to criminalize moral policing, there are no laws, due...

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Bow Street Magistrates' Court on the grounds of obscenity under the Hicklin test, for its theme of lesbian love, after a campaign against it by James...