eaching any "do not reveal"
clauses of any court orders that had already been received.
At most serious it would likely be down to a judge's opinion.
e.g. a judge *may* decide, "the court order clearly says that the
fact you've been served a court order must not be revealed. You
chose to stop updating your canary with the express purpose of
alerting the subject that an order may affect them, therefore you're
going to be prosecuted."
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
I remember my father telling me that in the old days if you had an
AA badge on the grille of your car and you passed an AA officer
coming the other way he would salute you. If there was a speed trap
and you were headed towards it he wouldn't salute. To the best of my
knowledge, no AA mechanic was ever prosecuted for not saluting. <br>
<br>
Wikipedia says on the subject:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">AA patrols on bicycles warned motorists of
police speed traps ahead. In 1910 in legal test case ('Betts -v-
Stevens') involving an AA patrolman and a potentially speeding
motorist, the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England_and_Wales"
title="Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales">Chief Justice</a>,
<a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Webster,_1st_Viscount_Alverstone"
title="Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone">Lord Alverston</a>,
ruled that where a patrolman signals to a speeding driver to slow
down and thereby avoid a speed-trap, then that person would have
committed the offence of 'obstructing an officer in the course of
his duty' under the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Crimes_Amendment_Act_1885"
title="Prevention of Crimes Amendment Act 1885">Prevention of
Crimes Amendment Act 1885</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3"
class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Automobile_Association#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup><sup
id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Automobile_Association#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup>
Subsequently the organisation developed a coded warning system,
which was used until the 1960s, whereby a patrolman would always
salute the driver of a passing car which showed a visible AA Badge
unless there was a speed trap nearby, on the understanding that
their officers could not be prosecuted for failing to salute.<sup
id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Automobile_Association#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup>
The AA Handbook included the following message many times "It
cannot be too strongly emphasized that when a patrol fails to
salute, the member should stop and ask the reason why, as it is
certain that the patrol has something of importance to
communicate.<sup id="cite_ref-AA1926_1-1" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Automobile_Association#cite_note-AA1926-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup></blockquote>
<br>
Footnote [6] points to a Daily Mail article which sounds a bit less
sure and says:
<blockquote type="cite">
<p>The
Automobile Association was founded in 1905 to beat 'unfair'
police
speed-traps - for which its famous salute was a secret weapon,
and
originally owned by its members.<br>
</p>
<p>The famous salute harks back
to the pioneering days of early motoring when speed limits were
less
than ten miles an hour. AA officers on bicycles would point out
hidden
police speed traps to motorists. <br>
</p>
<p>This led to prosecutions
for obstructing the police, so the AA salute was develope
