The Law Of Contempt by Borrie & Lowe – 4th Edition (India Reprint)

Description

Now in its fourth edition, the work has been throughly revised and updated to include new chapters incorporating the Human Rights Act 1998, the Children Young Persons Act 1933 and the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Constitutional context for common law system
3. Contempt in the face of the court
4. Publications interfering with the due course of justice in particular legal proceedings – the general position at common law
5. Publications interfering with the due course of justice in particular legal proceedings – the general position under the Contempt of Court Act 1981
6. Publications interfering with the course of justice in particular criminal proceedings
7. Publications interfering with course of justice in particular civil proceedings
8. The timing of publications
9. Reporting court proceedings
10. Publications interfering with the due course of justice as a continuing process
11. Responsibility for contempt by publication
12. Acts which interfere with the course of justice
13. Alternative approaches to prejudicial publicity impact on specific sets of proceedings and the administration of justice
14. Jurisdiction, procedure and powers of the courts in respect of criminal contempts
15. The application of criminal contempt to tribunals of inquiry
16. Civil contempt
    Appendix
    Contempt of Court Act 1981