Rossanna Dupin Fray against Sir Colin Blackburn, Knight

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date31 January 1863
Date31 January 1863
CourtCourt of the Queen's Bench

English Reports Citation: 122 E.R. 217

IN THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH AND THE EXCHEQUER CHAMBER

Rossanna Dupin Fray against Sir Colin Blackburn
Knight.

Adopted, Dawkins v. Paulet, 1869, L. R. 5 Q. B. 116. Applied, Anderson v. Gorrie, (1895) 1 Q. B. 671.

rossanna dupin fray against sir colin blackburn, Knight. Saturday, January Slat, 1863.-Judge. Action. Malice.-An action does not lie against a Judge of one of the superior Courts for a judicial act, though it be alleged to have been done maliciously and corruptly. [Adopted, Dawkins v. Paulet, 1869, L. R. 5 Q. B. 116, Applied, Anderson v. Gonie, [1895] 1 Q. B. 671.] The declaration stated that heretofore, to wit on the 28th January, 1862, the defendant, than being one of the Judges of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, at Westminster, and the plaintiff then being the plaintiff in a certain action depending in the same Court, in which one Henry Edmund Voules was defendant, and certain costs of adjournment of the trial of the same cause being due to the plaintiff from the last named defendant, and the plaintiff having theretofore, to wit, on the 15th January, obtained a rule nisi of the same Court against the said Henry Edmund Voules for the payment of such costs, which rule came on to be argued before the said defendant hereto as Such Judge on the said 28th January, when no sufficient cause was shewn against making the same absolute : Yet the defendant so being such Judge, well knowing the premises and not regarding his duty in that behalf, did refuse to make such rule absolute, and, on the contrary [577] thereof, did discharge the same rule with costs, contrary to law: by means...

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    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 6: Part II Courts 2
    • 27 June 2016
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