Can't see this getting abused can you?Under Part 1, a new civil order, the Injunction to Prevent Nuisance and Disorder (IPNA) will replace the current “stand alone” Anti-social Behaviour Order (ASBO). This is the ASBO which does not require a criminal conviction. The IPNA will also replace other orders including the Anti social Behaviour Injunction (ASBI), which social housing providers can use currently.
The IPNA will be very like the ASBI, including using its wide definition of ASB. This is conduct “capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person” rather than the definition used for ASBOs, which is conduct causing (or likely to cause) “harassment, alarm or distress”.
A brief reminder of the types of things people have been given ASBOs for, anyone?
"...in Manchester, the Council used its powers to obtain an ASBO to stop mobile soup vans operating in the city centre. These vans provide food and assistance regularly each evening to about 100 homeless people. The Council however argued that after the vans had left there was a mess all over the place and people had complained. Probation staff argued that the same could be said about every kebab shop, pub, chip shop and off-licence in the city.
A 13-year-old was served an order banning him from using the word "grass" anywhere in England and Wales.
A 60-year-old man from Northampton was banned from dressing as a schoolgirl and was given an ASBO stopping him from wearing skirts or showing bare legs on school days between 0830 and 1000 and 1445 and 1600.
In May 2004, a 16-year-old boy was banned from behaving in an anti-social manner at school. The five year order covers the whole of England and Wales and came as a response to his disruption of a science class.
In February 2003, a 16-year-old boy was banned from showing his tattoos, wearing a single golf glove, or wearing a balaclava in public anywhere in the country. He was also forbidden from congregating in public places in groups of more than three people.
A shepherd was given an Asbo for using his flock to intimidate neighbours, which he breached in January.
Stuart Hunt of Loch Ness brought to court 100 times since 2007 for breaching an ASBO preventing him from laughing, staring or slow hand clapping.
Partially-deaf Michael O'Rourke, 51, of Peterhead, was given an ASBO following complaints from his neighbours for tormenting them with very loud country and western music throughout the daytimes. Mr O'Rourke was banned from playing his favourite Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash tunes during daytime hours, but was fined for constant breaches.
In May 2003 a 19-year-old was banned from entering his own home on his release from prison.
Caroline Cartwright, from Washington, was given a 4 year ASBO banning her and her husband from having loud sex.
A "militant atheist" who left explicit images in a prayer room at Liverpool John Lennon Airport was given a five-year Asbo in April. Harry Taylor, 59, of Salford, was said to have left images of religious figures in sexual poses on three occasions in 2008. Among the posters, one image showed a smiling crucified Christ next to an advert for a brand of "no nails" glue. In another, Islamic suicide bombers at the gates of paradise were told: "Stop, stop, we've run out of virgins."
The oldest recipient of an order to date is an 87-year-old who among other things is forbidden from being sarcastic to his neighbours (July 2003). He was subsequently found guilty of breaking the terms of his order on three separate occasions.
A 26-year-old West Lothian man has been made the subject of an ASBO after playing the Band Aid single "Do they know it's Christmas" dozens of times daily to the annoyance of neighbours. He has been banned from "playing loud music, stamping his feet and dropping objects."
