In Re: B. Chandrasekaran vs Unknown on 13 August, 1957
It has been said that the text laid down in R. v. Hicklin L.R. (1868) 3 Q.B. 360 must be applied in the light of the changed approach to the treatment of sex since 1868 R. v. Martin Seeker Warburg Ltd (1954) 2 All E.R. 683. On 2nd July, 1954 at the central criminal Court Stable, J., told the Jury : Are we to take our literary standards as being the level of something that is suitable reading for the decently brought up young female aged fourteen. A mass of literature-great literature is wholly unsuitable for reading by the adolescent, but that does not mean that a publisher is guilty of criminal offence for making those works available to the general public. "A book which might not affect the mind of an archibishop might well affect the mind of. . .