Re Freston

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1883
Date1883
CourtCourt of Appeal
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24 cases
  • Piper & Samuda & Benk-Coker (Pamela) v DYC Fishing Ltd
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 3 July 2003
    ...that the true way of dealing with this case is to deal with it according to the principle which was laid down by this Court In re Freston 11 Q.B.D. 545, and recognized and approved of In re Dudley. 12 Q.B.D. 44. The principle so laid down is that the Court has a punitive and disciplinary ju......
  • DPP v Independent News and Media Plc
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 30 July 2018
    ...174-178, the line between civil and criminal contempt is often a blurred one and the authorities reviewed therein (see In re Freston 11 QBD 545 (1883); Attorney General v Kissane 32 LR Ir 220 (CA 1893); and Smith v Molloy 39 ILTR 221) suggest that a process of attachment can be used both i......
  • Shell E & P Ireland Ltd v McGrath (No. 2)
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 5 December 2006
  • Smith (A Bankrupt), Re, ex parte Braintree District Council
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 30 November 1989
    ...not only to punish him but also to coerce him into making payment of the sum due which he suspected that he might still have. In In re Freston (1883) 11 Q.B.D. 545, a case under the fourth exception in section 4 of the Act of 1869, Sir Baliol Brett M.R., at pp. 552-553, drew the distinction......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Involuntary Detention and the Separation of Judicial Power
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 35-1, March 2007
    • 1 March 2007
    ...Employees' Union v M udginberri Station Pty Ltd (1986) 161 CLR 98, 107–8 (Gibbs CJ, Mason, Wilson and Deane JJ); In re Freston (1883) LR 11 QBD 545; In re Grantham Wholesale Fruit, Vegetable and Potato Merchants Ltd [1972] 1 WLR 559. 280 Hinch v A-G (Vic) (1987) 164 CLR 15, 49 (Deane J); Wi......

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