Re Dessing

• Jurisdiction: Dinamarca
• Date: 26 May 1961
• Court: City Court (Denmark)

Denmark, Court of Frederiksberg.

In re Dessing.

Jurisdiction — On the high seas — Enforcement of municipal laws — Criminal jurisdiction — Effect of offence on interests of State — Broadcasting from outside territorial waters — The law of Denmark.

The Facts.—The accused, a dentist, was charged with violating “a statutory provision against advertising by having recommended his services through broadcast advertisements in ‘Radio Merkur’, operating outside Danish territorial waters in the Öresund. He argued in his defence that this act did not come within Danish jurisdiction, since the broadcasting took place from a foreign ship outside...