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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-2013/section-12",
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  "legislation": "nia/2013/7",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Abolition of scandalising the judiciary as form of contempt of court",
  "text": "(1) Scandalising the judiciary (also referred to as scandalising the court or scandalising judges) is abolished as a form of contempt of court under the common law.\n(2) That abolition does not prevent proceedings for contempt of court being brought against a person for conduct that immediately before that abolition would have constituted both scandalising the judiciary and some other form of contempt of court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2013/7/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:29.457425+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}