Laughing Gas in UK Law
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Balogh v St. Albans Crown Court
... ... He knew something about a gas called nitrous oxide N2O. It gives an exhilerating effect when inhaled. It is called "laughing gas". He had learned all about it at Oxford. During the trial he took a half-cylinder of it from the hospital car park. He carried it about with him ... ...
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R v Sonny Chapman and Others
... ... In our judgment, the matter is clear on existing authority ... 5 Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, is a substance which was first synthesised by Joseph Priestly in 1772. Its use as a recreational drug soon followed. A few years later, Sir ... ...
- Attorney General v British Broadcasting Corporation
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Alan Wilkinson and Lord Chancellor's Department and official Solicitor
... ... Then after the court adjourned: 'You're fucking dead. I'll kill you, you —… You fucking bastard. You think I'm laughing. Listen, I know where you live up fucking Sandbach and I'll burn your fucking house down and cut your (inaudible) off as well' ... 4 ... ...
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R v M
... ... In Balogh v Crown Court at St Albans [1975] QB 73 the appellant planned to disrupt a sitting of the Crown Court by releasing a cylinder of laughing gas into the ventilation system. He was intercepted before he could do the deed and brought before Melford Stevenson J who found him to be in ... ...
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Attorney General v British Broadcasting Corporation
... ... Crown Office (1970) 2 Queen's Bench 114 ; or by laughing gas, ( Balogh v. St. Albans Crown Court 1975) Queen's Bench 77 ... The judges are granted immunity from suit for anything done in their judicial ... ...
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OB v The Director of the Serious Fraud Office
... ... The alleged contempt in Balogh concerned the planned disruption of a Crown Court sitting by releasing a cylinder of laughing gas into the ventilation system. In Rooney , the alleged contempt consisted of a company director dismissing an employee for having been on jury ... ...
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(1) Terry John Neil v Soraya Jasmine Henderson
... ... That case involved an attempt by Mr Balogh to disrupt proceedings at St Albans Crown Court by releasing laughing gas down a ventilation duct into the trial court. He was caught by the police, however, having stolen a gas cylinder, located the vent a nd left ... ...
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Kamil Najim Abdullah Alseran and Another v MRE and Others
... ... According to Mr Alseran and the other witnesses, the soldiers were laughing while this took place and some were taking pictures. Mr Alseran said that this abuse occurred on two occasions and that he felt pain in his back for ... ...
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The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Hackney v Persons unknown in London Fields, Hackney (The ‘Prescribed Area’) Who Are:
... ... of a Cigarette Lighter), Including on any Equipment or Entertainment Device; and/or (5) Consuming or Selling of Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas) Save When Used for a Valid and Demonstrable Medicinal Purpose; and/or (6) Uprooting, Destroying or Damaging any Tree, Shrub or Plant; ... ...
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