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Originally Posted by jfman
The Contempt of Court Act 1981.
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Hello darkness, my old friend …
At journalist training I became deeply acquainted with this piece of legislation (as well as various pieces of defamation law).
A judge can have someone arrested, dragged to court and then subject them to summary conviction under the Contempt Act and send them immediately to jail. No trial, no bail, no jury. Newspaper editors tend not to mess about with it.