Attorney General v Unger

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1998
Year1998
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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12 cases
  • Attorney General v Random House Group Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 15 July 2009
    ...E.M.L.R. 76, 82–83, that the threshold of risk is not high.” 23 At p370F he referred to what he had himself said in A-G v Unger [1998] 1 Cr App R 308 and said: “I was there envisaging a publication being held in contempt even though it does not require (to ensure a safe conviction) the tria......
  • Attorney General v Associated Newspapers
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 3 March 2011
    ...General v Birmingham Post and Mail Ltd [1999] 1 WLR 361 at 370G). Simon Brown LJ endorsed the view he had expressed earlier (in Attorney General v Unger [1998] 1 Cr. App. R. 308, 318–319) that there can be a contempt and a safe conviction. Illumination is provided in Birmingham Post by Thom......
  • Grobbelaar v News Group Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 January 2001
    ...then not necessarily so as to outlaw every publication as fact of the guilt of a named person see, for a recent illustration, Attorney General v Unger and Others [1998] 1 CrAR 308, albeit the court's judgment there ended with clear words of warning to those in the business of crime reportin......
  • HM Attorney-General v MGN Ltd and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 29 July 2011
    ...Sedley LJ himself recognised that his formulation was not consistent with the approach of Simon Brown LJ (as he then was) in Attorney-General v Unger and others [1998] 1 Cr App R 308. The defendant pleaded guilty to theft at the magistrates' court after she had been interviewed by a newspap......
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