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should prohibit, for example, the offender while on the estate from taking part in, or
encouraging, racing, or driving at excessive speed. It might also prevent the group from
congregating with named others in a particular area of the estate. Such an order gives those
responsible for enforcing the order on the estate the opportunity to take action to prevent the
anti-social conduct before it takes place. Neighbours can alert the police, who will not have to
wait for the commission of a particular criminal offence.
The order will be breached not just by the offender driving but by his giving encouragement
by being a passenger or a spectator.
The court also seemed to leave open the door for the continued use of a prohibition to prevent
conduct that also amounts to an existing offence which carries only a monetary penalty, for
example loitering for the purpose of prostitution. The court should not impose such a
prohibition merely to increase the sentence for the offence but must go through all the steps
to make sure that an order is necessary.
Further details can be found on the Together website at www.together.gov.uk
Length of prohibitions
In R (lonergan) v Lewes Crown Court [2005] EWHC 457 (Admin), Maurice Kay LJ referred
to the duration of prohibitions, saying:
A curfew for two years in the life of a teenager is a very considerable restriction of freedom.
It may be necessary, but in many cases I consider it likely that either the period of curfew
could properly be set at less than the full life of the order or that, in the light of behavioural
progress, an application to vary the curfew under section 1(8) might well succeed.’
Consequently, just because an order must run for a minimum of two years, it does not follow
that each and every prohibition within the order must endure for the life of the order. This
approach was endorsed by the Court of Appeal in R v Bones [2005] EWCA 2395 which
considered that it might be necessary to amend or remove a prohibition after a period of time,
for example if the defendant started work.
ASBOs on juveniles should be reviewed yearly, and further details are given on page 45.
Targeting specific behaviour
As noted above, prohibitions must target the defendant’s specific anti-social behaviour.
But assuming the prohibitions are negative, specific and enforceable, the appropriateness of
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the prohibitions imposed can be judged only on the facts of each case. Therefore, a number of
common scenarios are included below for consideration, these are based on orders made by
the courts, although facts and prohibitions have been altered to highlight specific issues.
While these types of behaviour have been made the subject of orders, this should not imply
that such behaviour will automatically be held to be subject to orders in the future.
Further examples of prohibitions can be found on the Crime Reduction website at
www.crimereduction.gov.uk
The following are examples of prohibitions that were drawn up but were found to be too wide
or poorly drafted:
- Not to be a passenger in or on any vehicle, while any other person is jsic] committing
a criminal offence in England or Wales.
(A breach could be occasioned by travelling in a bus, the driver of which, unknown to the
subject of the order, was driving without a licence (R (W) v Acton Magistrates’ Court [2005]
EWHC 954 (Admin)).