on premises, despite being asked by the occupiers to leave, in circumstances where the officers believed that : certain offences (seditious speeches, incitements violence) would committed present. Hewart said:

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on premises, despite being asked by the occupiers to leave, in circumstances where the officers believed that

ABSTRACT

I am not at all prepared to accept the doctrine that it is only where an offence has been, or is being, committed, that the police are entitled to enter and remain on premises. On the contrary, it seems to me that a police officer has, ex virtute officii full right so to act when he has reasonable grounds for believing that an offence is imminent or is likely to be committed.