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The Court of Appeal upheld the High Court's decision to quash a civil order that prohibited an individual from public speaking and recording within a town, finding the order to be impermissibly vague and uncertain. The original decision by the District Court was set aside due to the lack of precision in the order's language, which failed to meet the principle of legal certainty required for individualised criminal provisions. Consequently, the subsequent criminal convictions resulting from breaches of the civil order were also quashed.
Civil order, public speaking, recording, Wexford Town, legal certainty, vagueness, anti-social behavior, Criminal Justice Act 2006, District Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, certiorari, individualized criminal provision, freedom of expression, constitutional rights, quashed convictions, necessity, proportionality, equality before the law.
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