Lawyers say no crime has been committed......... The legal profession has urged law enforcement agencies to carefully consider whether artist Bill Henson should be charged over an exhibition of photographs of naked children.
Police are expected to charge Henson for publishing an indecent article after a complaint was made about several photographs that were to be shown in a Sydney gallery on Thursday night.
The photos featured naked adolescent girls, in what poses that promotional material described as portraying the vulnerability of adolescent life.
New South Wales Law Society president Hugh Macon says the case against Henson could be very difficult to prove.
"The Crimes Act requires two things - an intention and an act," he said.
"The Act is usually fairly easily established but if the intention is to produce a work of art and solely to produce a work of art, then I can not see how a crime has been committed."
