Subjects:

Practice & Procedure

Contents:

1. Introduction.

2. Contempt in the face of the court.

3. Publications interfering with the due course of justice in particular legal proceedings - the general position at common law.

4. Publications interfering with the due course of justice in particular legal proceedings - the general position under the Contempt of Court Act 1981.

5. Publications interfering with particular criminal proceedings.

6. Publications interfering with the course of justice in particular civil proceedings.

7. The timing of publications.

8. Reporting court proceedings

9. Publications interfering with the due course of justice as a continuing process.

10. Responsibility for contempt by publication.

11. Acts which interfere with the course of justice.

12. Jurisdiction, procedure and powers of the courts in respect of criminal contempts.

13. The application of criminal contempt to tribunals of inquiry.

14. Civil contempt.

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