R v Penguin Books Ltd
1960 UK court case on obscenity laws / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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R v Penguin Books Ltd[lower-alpha 1] (also known as The Lady Chatterley Trial), was the public prosecution in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act 1959[lower-alpha 2] for the publication of D. H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. The trial took place over six days, in No 1 court of the Old Bailey, between 20 October and 2 November 1960 with Mervyn Griffith-Jones[lower-alpha 3] prosecuting, Gerald Gardiner counsel for the defence[lower-alpha 4] and Laurence Byrne presiding. The trial was a test case of the defence of public good provision under section 4 of the Act which was defined as a work "in the interests of science, literature, art or learning, or of other objects of general concern".
The jury found for the defendant in a result that ushered in the liberalisation of publishing, and which some saw as the beginning of the permissive society in Britain.[2]