Re Johnson

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1887
Year1887
CourtCourt of Appeal
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27 cases
  • Attorney General v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Abril 1991
    ...in some contexts that it exists to protect the dignity of the judges. Over 100 years ago Bowen L.J. explained in In re. Johnson (1888) 20 Q.B.D. 68, 74: "The law has armed the High Court of Justice with the power and imposed on it the duty of preventing … any attempt to interfere with the a......
  • Connolly v Dale
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 11 Julio 1995
    ...14 3) Interference with a solicitor in the discharge of his or her duties can also constitute a contempt of court —see In re Johnson (1887) 20 Q.B.D. 68 per Bowen, L.J. at p. 74. 15 Accordingly there can be no doubt that the actus reus of the offence of contempt is established in the presen......
  • Attorney General v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Abril 1991
    ...in some contexts that it exists to protect the dignity of the judges. Over 100 years ago Bowen L.J. explained in In re. Johnson (1888) 20 Q.B.D. 68, 74: "The law has armed the High Court of Justice with the power and imposed on it the duty of preventing … any attempt to interfere with the a......
  • RE GARUMUNIGE TILAKARATNE
    • Sri Lanka
    • 25 Enero 1991
    ...Sumangala V. Mapitigama Dharmadutha et. al (1908) 11 N.L.R 195,201. (26) R V. Davison (1821) 4 B & A 329, 333, 335. (27) In re Johnson (1887) 20 Q.B.D. 68, 74. (28) Johnson V. Lyrant (1923) 3 S.C. 789, 790. (29) A.G. V. Times Newspapers 1974 A.C. 273, 298, 301, 302, 304, 309, 322, 323. (30)......
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