caa a22 4500 386387753 CHVBK 20180307112104.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0956618X00007225 doi S0956618X00007225 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0956618X00007225 Routledge Graham Blasphemy [Elektronische Daten] The Report of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Working Group on Offences against Religion and Public Worship1 [Graham Routledge] In 1977 the House of Lords in R v Lemon unanimously asserted that the offence of blasphemy had survived a long period of desuetude, and remained very much alive and capable of being used. This surprised many. There had been no prosecution for the offence for sixty-five years. Lord Goddard had once declared it ‘obsolescent', Lord Denning had described it as a ‘dead letter', and in 1959 the Society for the Abolition of the Blasphemy Laws had abolished itself. Despite this, and despite disagreement among their Lordships as to the intention or mens rea of the offence, they had no doubt that it still existed as a criminal offence. Indeed, Lord Scarman expressly disassociated himself from the view that the offence ‘serves no useful purpose in modern law'. Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1989 Ecclesiastical Law Journal Cambridge University Press 1/4(1989-01), 27-32 0956-618X 1:4<27 1989 1 ELJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956618X00007225 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956618X00007225 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Routledge Graham NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ecclesiastical Law Journal Cambridge University Press 1/4(1989-01), 27-32 0956-618X 1:4<27 1989 1 ELJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge