Re Read and Huggonson

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1742
CourtHigh Court of Chancery
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  • Wong v Minister for Justice
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 1 January 1994
    ... ... & MAGILL PUBLICATIONS HOLDINGS LTD 1984 ILRM 577 DPP, PEOPLE V CONROY 1986 IR 460 AG V TIMES NEWSPAPERS 1974 AC 273 READ & HUGGONSON, IN RE 1742 2 ATK 469 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS & FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS ART 10 OFFENCES AGAINST THE ... ...
  • Clarkson v the Mandarin Club Ltd
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • S v Harber and Another
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...was the judgment of Lord Hardwicke LC in Re Read & Huggonson, sub nom Roach v Garvan, generally cited as The St James Evening Post case (1742) 2 Atk 469, which was followed by Lord Erskine LC in Ex parte Jones (1806) 13 Ves 237. In the latter case the Court said the following (cited in Odha......
  • Ex Parte Rowan Sidney Callick and Joe Koroma [1985] PNGLR 67
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 November 1984
    ...class belongs to the category which Lord Hardwicke LC characterised as "scandalising a Court or a judge". (In re Read and Huggonson (1742) 2 Atk 469.) That description of that class of contempt is to be taken subject to one, and an important, qualification. Judges and Courts are alike open ......
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  • RETHINKING THE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CONTEMPT OF COURT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...26 In the words of Lord Hardwicke LC, “prejudicing mankind against persons before the cause is heard” (The St James's Evening Post(1742) 2 Atk 469 at 471; 26 ER 642 at 684). 27 Attorney-General v Hertzberg Daniel [2009] 1 SLR(R) 1103 at [29], citing the example of Re Application of Lau Swee......

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