In Regina v. Director of Public Prosecutions Ex Parte Kebeline and Others 1999, Lord Hope explained that courts should "defer, on democratic grounds, to the considered opinion of the elected body as to where the balance is to be struck between the rights of the individual and the needs of society."
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