Liam O’Brien Succeeds in Application to Dismiss Indictment Arising from “Inherently Idiotic” Behaviour of Lay Client

Liam O’Brien was instructed by Yarwood Holmes Law to represent a former soldier charged with a racially aggravated public order offence after telling a Police Officer he looked like Harvey Price.

The Court was persuaded by Mr O’Brien’s “helpful” submission that while his lay client’s behaviour had been “inherently idiotic” it could not properly be considered in all of the circumstances to demonstrate, in the terms of the Public Order Act 1986, a “hostility based on [the officer’s] membership (or presumed membership) of a racial group”.

Though the allegation was relatively trivial compared to those Mr O’Brien is ordinarily instructed to deal with they were of enormous significance to his lay client.

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