Practice question · Estimate
The Wolfenden Report recommended in 1957 that private consensual homosexual conduct between adults cease to be criminal. In what year did England and Wales legislate that recommendation?
Estimate on a scale from 1950 to 1980.
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- A decade after the report, not immediately.
- The Sexual Offences Act of the late 1960s.
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1967 (answers within ±2 count)
Why
1967, ten years after the report. The gap is the substantive point rather than a piece of trivia: the Hart–Devlin argument ran through the whole decade, and a recommendation resting on the claim that some private morality is "not the law's business" was contested precisely because it asserted a limit on what law may take an interest in.
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