Perverting the Course of Justice in UK Law

  • Attorney General v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 11 April 1991
    ... ... or interferes with the process of justice in relation to the said injunction." ... interfere with, and not to obstruct, the course of justice; and the case, if any, made against ... of the law; in impeding and perverting the course of justice … It is not the dignity ... ...
  • Jones v Kaney
    • Supreme Court
    • 30 March 2011
    ... ... under section 12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1969, so that this appeal is brought directly ... words written or spoken in the ordinary course of any proceeding before any court or tribunal ... prosecutions for perjury, or for perverting the course of justice, or for contempt of court, ... ...
  • Darker and Others v Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ... ... in the interests of the administration of justice and is granted to him as a matter of public ... said or done by them in the ordinary course of any proceeding in a court of justice. The same ... ...
  • R v Cotter and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 10 May 2002
    ... ... (HHJ ORME) Royal Courts of Justice Strand, London, WC2A 2LL ... the ambit of the common law offence of perverting the course of justice and whether its ... ...
  • R v Sookoo
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 20 March 2002
    ... ... CRIMINAL DIVISION Royal Courts of Justice The Strand London WC2A 2LL ... to a count of theft and a count of perverting the course of justice. For the offence of theft ... ...
  • Attorney General v Barker
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 16 February 2000
    ... ... The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales ... (Lord Bingham of ... "Negligence/Damages" and read: "Perverting the [course] of justice at the Watford County ... ...
  • B (A Child)
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 June 2013
    ... ... In due course the sister was taken permanently into care ... of attempting to pervert the course of justice and sentenced to a further term of 27 months ... was prosecuted for and convicted of perverting the course of justice and perjury in respect of ... ...
  • Cumming and Others v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 December 2003
    ... ... Lord Justice Brooke and ... Lord Justice Latham ... the Northumbria Police on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. They were taken to the ... ...
  • R v Selvage
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 30 July 1981
    ... ... Lord Justice Watkins ... Mr. Justice Kenneth Jones ... Mr ... through a well practised procedure in the course of which the validity of the application is ... to be made of the offence of perverting the course of justice it is essential to prove ... ...
  • Attorney General v Leveller Magazine Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 01 February 1979
    ... ... Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice of the 19th day of May 1978 might be reviewed ... the defendants raised no objection to the course proposed; the magistrates assented to it and the ... of the law; in impeding and perverting the course of justice … It is not the dignity ... ...
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