Rex v. Caunt - 01.11.1947
Case- Case number
- unreported
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Case Description
Incitement - publisher of an antisemitic article in "The Morecambe and Heysham Visitor" is indicted for seditious libel - context of violence against British soldiers in Palestine - defendant is acquitted after persuading the jury that the article was not meant as an incitement to violence against British Jews
- Name of Court
- Liverpool Assizes
- Date of decision
- Nov 1, 1947
- Subjects
- Freedom of Speech
- Hate Speech and Incitement
- Israel-related Incidents
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Year
- 1947
- Generated ID
- FZF0259-6776
- Geolocation
Latitude: 53.400002
Longitude: -2.97794
- Geolocation
- Source
- Caunt, James. An Editor on Trial. Rex v. Caunt: Alleged Seditious Libel. Morecambe, 1948; The National Archives ASSI 52/618
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