R v Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Choudhury
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 09 April 1990 |
| Date | 09 April 1990 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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10 cases
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R (Green) v City of Westminster Magistrates' Court
...there was no unfairness to them if we considered it. 32 Mr Gledhill relied upon a passage in the judgment of Watkins LJ in R v Metropolitan Magistrate ex p Choudhury [1991] 1 QB 429 at 437: "..in our opinion a statement will not necessarily be prevented from being a blasphemous libel simply......
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Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd
...whether the United Kingdom is in breach of Article 10. Thus in R. v. Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, Ex parte Choudhury [1991] 1 Q.B. 429, where the issue was whether the common law offence of blasphemy is restricted to Christianity, Watkins L.J. delivering the judgment of a str......
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Linton Lewis of Cane Hall Applicant v DPP Colin Williams First Respondent The Chief Magistrate of Saint Vincent and The Grenadines Sonya Young Second Respondent [ECSC]
...and fact on the information that was before her was perverse. Learned Counsel referred the Court to the cases of R v Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate. Exparte Choudhury [1990] 3 WLR 986 at 992. 117 Learned Queen's Counsel further submitted that it is manifestly the case that the Ch......
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15 books & journal articles
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Religious rights in historical, theoretical, and international context: Hobby Lobby as a jurisprudential anomaly?
...See Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, ch. 4, [section] 79 (Eng.); R v. Chief Metro. Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Choudhury [1991] 1 Q.B. 429 (CA) (Eng.); see also Choudhury v. United Kingdom, App. No. 17439/90 12(4) Hum. RTS. L.J. 172, 172 (1991) (finding no "link between freed......
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Popular Names Index to UK Cases and EU Legislation and Cases
...on radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity (OJ 1999 L91/10) (The) Satanic Verses Case R v Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Choudhury [1991] 1 QB 429 S, Re St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust v S; R v Collins an......
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Criminal Law
...87 (C.C.A.); Whitehorse v. Lemon , [1979] A.C. 617 (H.L.); and R . v. Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Choudhury , [1991] 1 All E.R. 306 (Q.B.D.) [ Ex parte Choudhury ]. Criminal Law 173 that is, the common law extended its protection only to Christianity and more especia......
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On the legal concept of religion
...any religion, or for imposing any religious observance." 12 But cf. R. v. Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, Ex parte Choudhary [1991] 1 Q.B. 429 where the televant constitutional questions were raised but not answered save in the context of the applicability of the law of blasphemy......
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