Re Johnson

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1887
Date1887
CourtCourt of Appeal
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24 cases
  • 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......
  • 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......
  • Attorney-General v Chee Soon Juan
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 31 Marzo 2006
    ...on their way to the discharge of such duties, while discharging them, and on their return therefrom” (per Bowen LJ in In re Johnson (1887) 20 QBD 68 at 74). Acts of interference with proceedings before a master (or an assistant registrar in our local context) would be punishable by the High......
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