Re Lonrho Plc

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Year1989
Date1989
CourtHouse of Lords
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27 cases
  • Re Bolton
    • Cayman Islands
    • Court of Appeal (Cayman Islands)
    • January 23, 2004
    ...Ltd. v. Bayfield Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451; [2000] 1 All E.R. 65; (1999), 149 New L.J. 1793, considered. (6) Lonrho Plc., In re, [1990] 2 A.C. 154; [1989] 2 All E.R. 1100; (1989), 133 Sol. Jo. 120, distinguished. (7) Moncris Invs. Ltd. v. Francis, Jamaica Court of Appeal, unreported,......
  • Attorney General v Dallas
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • January 23, 2012
    ...this court in relation to trials for contempt on indictment was inappropriate. 8 6. The issue was reconsidered in the House of Lords in In Re Lonrho plc [1990] 2 AC 154. After considering the ancient jurisdiction of the House of Lords to direct trial on indictment for breach of its privile......
  • Kelly v O'Neill
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • December 2, 1999
    ...1 R V GREY 1900 2 QB 36 KENNEDY & MCCANN, IN RE 1976 IR 382 DPP, PEOPLE V CONROY 1986 IR 460 AG V BBC 1981 AC 303 LONRHO PLC, IN RE 1990 2 AC 154 DESMOND V GLACKIN 1992 ILRM 490 WONG V MIN FOR JUSTICE 1994 1 IR 223 CONSTITUTION ART 38.1 LAW REFORM COMMISSION REPORT ON CONTEMPT OF COU......
  • Pet And Complaint Of Abdelbasset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi And Al Amin Khalifa Fhima V. Times Newspapers Ltd And John Witherow And Nicholas Rufford
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • August 10, 1999
    ...1 and 2 of the Act, it has to consider the prospective effect of the publication as at the date when it was made. In In re Lonrho plc [1990] 2 A.C. 154 Lord Bridge of Harwich said at page 209: "The question whether a particular publication, in relation to particular legal proceedings which ......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Case Management, Similar Fact Evidence in Civil Cases, and a Divided Law of Evidence
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 10-2, May 2006
    • May 1, 2006
    ...Viall vBucks CC, unreported, 10 October 1986, per Sir Ralph Kilner Brown.70 Lord Bridge expressed similar sentiments in Re Lonrho plc [1990] 2 AC 154, 209: ‘If the trial is to be byjury, the possibility of prejudice by advance publicity directed to an issue which the jury will haveto decide......
  • Some reflections on the law of contempt
    • Ireland
    • Irish Judicial Studies Journal No. 2-2, July 2002
    • July 1, 2002
    ...of by the judgment is something quite different from the trial by jury which Article 38.5 requires in every other criminal charge. 47[1990] 2 A.C. 154. 48[1984] A.C. 778 at 791H-792E. However, the United States Supreme Court did finally hold, in Cheff v. Schnackenberg (1966) 384 US 373, tha......

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