Badry v DPP
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1982 |
| Date | 1982 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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29 cases
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General Medical Council v British Broadcasting Corporation
...point, and his brief judgment (which refers to "the lateness of the hour") does not refer to any authorities as having been cited. 30In Badry v D.P.P. [1983] 2 A.C. 297, 307, Lord Hailsham said that Attorney-General v BBC "plainly established … that, in the absence of statutory provision t......
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Attorney-General v Shadrake Alan
...effect of the publication. Times Newspaper was not cited to the Privy Council in Lutchmeeparsad Badry v Director of Public Prosecutions [1983] 2 AC 297 (“Badry”), an appeal from Mauritius where the Board considered at 304 that “nothing has intervened in the past 80 years to invalidate the a......
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DPP of Mauritius v Hurnam
...v The Queen [1914] AC 599, 614-5, per Lord Sumner. It was adopted and followed by the Board in Badry v Director of Public Prosecutions [1983] 2 AC 297 in deciding the first appeal as of right from Mauritius under section 70A of the Courts Act. The Board again accepted the applicability of......
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Attorney General v Wain and Others
...law of contempt of court in the administration of justice in England. This fact is noted by Lord Hailsham LC in Badry v DPP of Mauritius [1983] 2 AC 297 at p 303; [1982] 3 All ER 973 at p 978 where in dealing with the contempt of scandalizing the court, he said: `In the United Kingdom the l......
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Administrative and Constitutional Law
...in some cases such as Wain and Tan Liang Joo (above, para 1.92) on R v Gray [1900] 2 QB 36 which Badry v Director of Public Prosecutions [1983] 2 AC 297 (‘Badry’) interpreted as requiring the consideration of the potential effect of the impugned publications in the circumstances in which it......