 And thirdly, if one is looking at article 8.2, no public
authority can be said to have interfered with a right (to indulge in sado-masochism) by enforcing the provisions of the 1861 Act.If, as appears to be the fact, sado-masochistic acts inevitably involve the occasioning of at least [ABH], there cannot be a right under our law to indulge in them.Lord Mustill preferred consensual, private, sexual acts, up to and including involving ABH, to be outside of criminality