The Weekly Law Reports
[1999] 2 WLR 1305
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
GILBERT AHNEE and Others Appellants and DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS Respondent
[appeal from the supreme court of mauritius]
1999 Jan. 25,
26;
March 17
March 17
Lord Steyn, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord Hoffmann, Sir Iain Glidewell and Sir Andrew Leggatt
Mauritius
— Supreme Court
— Jurisdiction
— Contempt of court
— Newspaper article publicly scandalising court
— Whether power to commit for contempt of court
— Whether power contravening individual's constitutional rights
— Whether constitutional meaning of “law” including common law
— Ingredients of offence of scandalising court
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Courts Ordinance 1945 (No. 5 of 1945), s. 15
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Constitution of Mauritius (Laws of Mauritius, 1981 rev., vol. 1, p. 9), ss. 5(1), 10(1)(4), 12(1)(2)(b), 76(1)
[1]
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Courts Act (Laws of Mauritius, 1996 rev., vol. 2), s. 15
[2]