The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1958] AC 424
[JUDICIAL COMMITTEE]
DON THOMAS SAMARATUNGA APPELLANT; AND THE QUEEN RESPONDENT.
ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF CEYLON.
1958 April 23;
June 3.
June 3.
VISCOUNT SIMONDS, LORD COHEN, LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM, LORD SOMERVELL OF HARROW and the RT. HON. L. M. D. DE SILVA.
Ceylon
— Perjury
— Summary statutory powers of court
— Construction and scope
— Summary committal as for contempt
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Criminal Procedure Code (Legislative Enactments of Ceylon, 1938, c. 16), ss. 439 (1), 440 (1)
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Penal Code (Legislative Enactments of Ceylon, 1938, c. 15), s. 188.