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Contempt of Court - From: 1900 To: 1929
This page lists 6 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.
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 Regina v Andrew Brown; 1907 - (1907) 7 NSW State Reports 290
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Stancomb v Trowbridge Urban District Council [1910] 2 Ch 190
1910
Warrington J
Contempt of Court
To establish a contempt of court it is not necessary to show an intention to disobey the court order. Warrington J said: "In my judgment, if a person or a corporation is restrained by injunction from doing a particular act, that person or corporation commits a breach of the injunction, and is liable for process for contempt, if he or it in fact does the act, and it is no answer to say that the act was not contumacious in the sense that, in doing it, there was no direct intention to disobey the order."
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 Rex v Blumenfeld, Ex parte Tupper; 1912 - (1912) 28 T L R 308
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 Hubbard v Woodfield; 1913 - (1913) Sol Jo 729
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 Scott v Scott; HL 5-May-1913 - [1912] P 241; [1913] AC 417; 29 TLR 520; [1911-13] All ER 1; [1913] UKHL 2
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Johnson v Grant [1923] SC 789
1923
SCS
Lord Clyde, Lord President
Scotland, Contempt of Court
Lord Clyde, the Lord President considered whether the contemnor should be given early release from prison and said: "The mere circumstance that he presents a belated expression of contrition has, with regard to the public aspect of the matter, almost no importance at all. There is ample opportunity . . for repentance before sentence is pronounced. The appeal is simply to the clemency of the court . . and the idea must not be harboured that a person who has wilfully committed a breach of interdict can obtain remission of sentence by coming to the court and saying, "I realise my transgression and apologise for it" – however sincerely such an apology may be made."
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