ABSTRACT
Viscount Dilhorne: ... This Act, in my opinion, is one of those Acts to which my noble and learned friends, Lord Reid and Lord Diplock, referred in Sweet v Parsley [1970] AC 132, 149, 163 which, to apply the words of Wright J in Sherras v De Rutzen [1895] 1 QB 918, 922 deals with acts which ‘are not criminal in any real sense, but are acts which in the public interest are prohibited under a penalty’.
