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limits of fair and reasonable criticism and whether it is mere libel or defamation of the Judge. It is submitted, that

Court (3rd Edn.), 1993, at p. 50 it is stated that libel upon courts is made contempt “to keep a blaze of glory around them ... attempting to render them contemptible in the eyes of the public…. A libel upon a court is a reflection upon the King, and telling

absolute, but subject to restrictions on the grounds like sedition, obscenity, slander, libel and interest of public order. If the State is denied power