Contempt of Court in UK Law
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Attorney General v Times Newspapers Ltd
......-General brought actions in the Chancery Division of the High Court against the publishers and editors of the newspapers, the "Observer" and ... the publishers and editors of those three newspapers punished for contempt of court ("the first contempt proceedings"). . 6 On ......
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Attorney General v Leveller Magazine Ltd
...... set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely an Order of the Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice of ... hereby, Reversed and that the Appellants be found not guilty of contempt of court: And it is further Ordered , That the Respondent do pay or cause ......
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Attorney General v Newspaper Publishing Plc
...... Lord Justice Balcombe . 87/0753 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) ON APPEAL FROM ... Vice-Chancellor to a preliminary question of law formulated in contempt proceedings brought by him against the defendants. I can well understand ......
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Attorney General v Times Newspapers Ltd
......But the Court of Appeal in April, 1972, reinstated these five parents ( In re Taylor ... the attention of the Attorney-General maintaining that it was in contempt of Court. The Attorney-General decided to take no action. But this did not ......
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Balogh v St. Albans Crown Court
......A practical joke. But the Judge thought differently. He was not amused. To him it was no laughing matter. It was a very serious contempt of Court. Balogh said:- . 2 "I am actually in the wrong Court at the moment. The proceedings I intended to subvert are next ......
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Z Ltd v A-Z and AA-LL
...... 81/0514 1981 No. 1434 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) ON APPEAL FROM ...The defendant is clearly guilty of a contempt of court. If the bank should honour the cheque, it would be guilty of ......
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R v Howell (Errol) (pet dis)
...... of the law of discovery of documents in civil actions in the High Court. The practice of compelling litigating parties in the course of preparing ... distinctive fashion, through its rules about abuse of process and contempt of court. . 3 The case, in my view, turns on its own ......
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Attorney General v British Broadcasting Corporation
...... were entitled to exemption was to come before the local valuation court at Andover on the 10th March 1978. . . 5 The Exclusive Brethren ... the hearing of a case before a court of law will constitute a contempt of court punishable by fine or imprisonment or both. . . 7 In this ......
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R v Mirza; R v Connor and Rollock
...... and another (Appellants) (On Appeal from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)) Regina and Mirza ... by the members of the jury from judicial standards and as contempt of court any interference by outsiders with the discharge of their ......
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Commissioners of Customs and Excise v Barclays Bank Plc
......The Court of Appeal (Peter Gibson and Longmore LJJ and Lindsay J) reversed his ... "IF YOU [ ] DISOBEY THIS ORDER YOU MAY BE HELD TO BE IN CONTEMPT OF COURT AND MAY BE IMPRISONED, FINED OR HAVE YOUR ASSETS SEIZED ......
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