Fox v "The Star" Newspaper, Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 15 December 1899 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1899] UKHL J1215-2 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 15 December 1899 |
[1899] UKHL J1215-2
House of Lords
Whereas Monday the 19th day of June last was appointed for hearing Counsel upon the Petition and Appeal of John Edward Fox, of the Court House, Croydon, in the county of Surrey, Barrister-at-law, Registrar of the County Court of Surrey, holden at Croydon, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 10th of March 1898, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioner might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the printed case of "The Star Newspaper Company, Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal: Counsel were accordingly called in; and no Counsel appearing for the said Appellant, he was heard for himself at the Bar; and Counsel appearing for the said Respondents, but not being called on; And due consideration being had this day of what was offered by the said Appellant:
It is Ordered and Adjudged by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 10th of March 1898, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Appeal be, and the same is...
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