McLeod v St. Aubyn
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1899 |
| Date | 1899 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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63 cases
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Attorney General v O'Kelly
...contempt of Court by scandalising the Court itself have not become obsolete, and the dictum to the contrary in McLeod v. St. Aubyn,ELR [1899] A. C. 549, cannot be accepted as accurate, having regard to the subsequent decisions,R. v. Gray,ELR [1900] 2 Q. B. 36, and R. v. Editor of the New St......
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Attorney General v Wain and Others
... ... of is a contempt of court, it is important that one does `not lose sight of local conditions`: see the Privy Council`s decision in McLeod v St Aubyn [1989] AC 549. This was recently reiterated in Badry `s case where Lord Hailsham LC, said in the Privy Council, in an appeal from ... ...
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Attorney-General v Hertzberg Daniel and Others
... ... right to freedom of speech and expression imposed by the law of contempt vary from place to place and would depend on the local conditions ( McLeod v St Aubyn [1989] AC 549; Wain at 393-394), as well as the ideas held by the courts about the principles to be adhered to in the administration of ... ...
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6 books & journal articles
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Administrative and Constitutional Law
...struck between contempt law and free speech varied from place to place and depended on ‘the local conditions’ (citing McLeod v St Aubyn[1899] AC 549, without going into the rationale for allowing contempt on small islands which may be more than a little offensive): AG v Hertzberg Daniel[200......
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Table of Cases
...374, 401 McLeod v. Sinclair, 2008 CanLII 67901, [2008] O.J. No. 5242 (S.C.J.) ............................204, 415 McLeod v. St Aubyn, [1899] A.C. 549 ...................................................................................322, 347 McLoughlin v. Kutasy, [1979] 2 S.C.R. 311 ............
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Administrative and Constitutional Law
...and more educated’: Shadrake Alan at [3]. One might note that the Privy Council had, in the 19th century decision of McLeod v St Aubyn [1899] AC 549 at 561 observed - it turns out inaccurately - that contempt of court was increasingly redundant though there was utility in retaining it ‘in s......
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Internet Intermediaries
...such as has long been recognized in the context of editorial responsibility. As Lord Morris commented in McLeod v. St. Aubyn, [1899] AC 549, 562: “A printer and publisher intends to publish, and so intending cannot plead as a justiication that he did not know the contents. he appellant in t......
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