Case report: Court of Appeal clarifies the law on downloading pornography from the Web

In the recent years the law courts had to deal with a considerable number of cases involving child pornography received or downloaded through the Internet.¹ Moreover, there has been a considerable number of appeals involving not only sentencing issues but also the interpretation provided to the making offences under section 1(1) of the Protection of Children Act 1978 (the 1978 Act) since the decision of the Court of Appeal in R v Bowden.² The Court of Appeal has now had an opportunity to explain the law. Yaman Akdeniz reports.