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Grossly offensive, was an ordinary English phrase with no special legal content which it was for the Justices to apply to the facts as they found them. What is offensive has to be judged by the standards of an open and just multiracial society, Director of Public Prosecutions v. Collins, (2006) 1 WLR 308 QB; see also (English) Communications Act, 2003, s. 127; Cozens v. Brutus, (1978) AC 854: (1972) 3 WLR 521: (1972) 2 All ER 1297 HL(E).