The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[2013] QB 896
Court of Appeal
Regina
v
Kenny
[2013] EWCA Crim 1
2012 Oct 17;
2013 Jan 30
Gross LJ, Burnett J, Judge Ford QC
Crime— Common law offence— Perverting course of justice— Defendant breaching restraint order— Breach involving no illegality independent of breach itself— Defendant charged with conspiracy to pervert course of justice— Whether offence of perverting course of justice confined to acts giving rise to some other independent criminal wrongdoing— Whether simple breach of restraint order within ambit of acts tending to pervert course of justice— Whether having tendency and intended to pervert administration of public justice