词条 | Schoolkids Oz |
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Schoolkids Oz was No. 28 of Oz magazine. The issue was, on a special occasion, edited by 5th and 6th-form children. It was the subject of a high-profile obscenity case in the United Kingdom from June 1971 to 5 August 1971,[1] the longest trial under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act. The trialThe trial of Oz editors Richard Neville, Felix Dennis, and Jim Anderson, for No. 28, Schoolkids Oz, was conducted at the Old Bailey, under the auspices of Judge Michael Argyle. Of particular significance is the adaptation by Vivian Berger of a Robert Crumb cartoon to include the Rupert Bear cartoon character in an explicitly sexual situation. The defence lawyer was John Mortimer, QC, later the writer of the Rumpole of the Bailey television series. He was assisted by junior counsel Geoffrey Robertson, later to become a prominent barrister in his own right. The defendants were found guilty and sentenced to up to 15 months imprisonment. This was later quashed on appeal by the lord chief justice Lord Widgery. ReactionsIn her "Oz Trial Post-Mortem", which was not published until it was included in The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986), the magazine's contributor Germaine Greer made the following points:
Geoffrey Robertson later adapted the transcripts of the trial into the television drama The Trials of Oz (1991). References1. ^See The Times, London, diary of year [31 December 1971]; and ITN Source for citations Further reading
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