R v Ramsay and Foote
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1883 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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R v Lemon R v Gay News Ltd
...21 St.Tr. 847; Reg. v. Hetherington (1841) 4 St.Tr.N.S. 563; Reg. v. Bradlaugh(1883) 15 Cox C.C. 217 and Reg. v. Ramsay and Foote (1883) 15 Cox C.C. 231 applied. Rex v. Aldred (1909) 22 Cox C.C. 1 considered. Per curiam. A blasphemous libel is matter calculated to outrage the feelings of Ch......
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R v Lemon
...2 Chancery 447 at page 462, and his comments upon the views of Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice, as shown by his direction to the jury in R. v. Ramsay (1883) 15 Cox Criminal Cases 231, a case which we shall have to examine in much more detail hereafter. 28 Secondly, of the four cases in the la......
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R (Green) v City of Westminster Magistrates' Court
...do not deserve the character which is affixed to them in this indictment." To the same effect, Lord Coleridge CJ directed the jury in R v Ramsay and Foote (1883) 15 Cox CC 231 as follows: "the mere denial of the truth of the Christian religion or of the Scriptures is not enough per se to co......
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John Corway v Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd and Others
...v. Lemon [1979] A.C. 617; [1979] 2 W.L.R. 281; [1979] 1 All E.R. 898. R. v. Petcherine (1855) 8 St. lr. (N.S.) 1086. Ramsay v. Foote (1883) 15 Cox C.C. 231. Taylor's case (1676) 1 Ventris 293; 3 Keble 607. Defamation - Libel - Blasphemous libel - Application for leave to commence prosecutio......
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