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> If a judge tells you to stop doing something, you stop doing Even if they have no legal right to?
by Chris2048 5y ago
> If a judge tells you to stop doing something, you stop doing
Even if they have no legal right to?
- treeman79 5y agoJudge can do anything they want, regardless of laws or sanity. Judge orders you to wear a purple hat, you wear a purple hat. You can seek relief from other judges if you don’t like it. Anything else and you go to jail. My experience doing tech support for them when I was young is that they are the most arrogant people imaginable.
- pmyteh 5y agoBut they do. In Scotland (and the rest of the UK) judges can bar publication of a wide range of material about a court case, in advance or retrospectively, and enforce it by order. That order has penal consequences if broken. If you don't think the order is within the legal bounds of the power, you can appeal it. (News organisations do this semi-regularly). What you shouldn't do is breach it and hope to get off at the contempt hearing.
- Chris2048 5y ago> bar publication of a wide range of material about a court case applied to all but journalists?
- seanhunter 5y agoThe ruling that has been linked in another comment and if you read that you can see that in this case neither side disputed the lawful nature of the restrictive order. In other words noone involved claimed the judge didn't have the legal right to tell Murray not to allow identification of the complainers.
- Chris2048 5y agoThis post was a response to a maxim (a generalization), not this case.