Walter and Another v Lane
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 06 August 1900 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1900] UKHL J0806-3 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 06 August 1900 |
[1900] UKHL J0806-3
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Friday the 20th, as Monday the 23rd days of July last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Arthur Fraser Walter, of Printing House Square, in the City of London, and Godfrey Walter, of Printing House Square aforesaid (on behalf of themselves and all other the proprietors of the business of publishing and carrying on "The Times" newspaper), praying, That the matter of the Judgment set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, a Judgment of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 9th of November, 1899, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Judgment might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of John Lane, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; And due consideration being had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Judgment of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 9th of November 1899, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Reversed: And it is further Ordered and Adjudged, That a perpetual Injunction be issued restraining the Respondent, his servants and agents, from further publishing, printing, selling, delivering or otherwise disposing of, or causing or permitting to be further published, printed, sold, delivered or otherwise disposed of, any copy or copies of the book entitled "Appreciations and Addresses, Lord Rosebery," or of any other book or books containing any copies or copy of certain articles or reprints entitled "Lord Rosebery on Free Libraries," "Lord Rosebery and Sir Walter Besant on London," "Lord Rosebery on Great Britain and America," "Lord Rosebery on Burke," and "Etonian Dinner�Lord Rosebery and Lord Curzon," and which were published in "The Times" newspaper on the 26th of June 1896, the 8th of December 1896, the 8th of July 1898, the 11th...
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