Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007 (i) intentionally or through negligence failing to attend the court in accordance with the summons; or (ii) and having attended the court, refusing to give evidence or to produce the document or thing, as the case may be; or (iii) refusing as a witness to answer any question put to him or her which he or she is lawfully required to answer; (b) obstructing, interrupting or disturbing judicial proceedings; (c) misbehaviour in court; (d) insulting a judicial officer or officer of court in the course of judicial proceedings; (e) knowingly contravening or failing to comply with any order of a court which is given during or in respect of judicial proceedings and with which it is his or her duty to comply; (f) by words, conduct or demeanour pretending to be an officer of the court; (g) issuing or publishing to any other person a document that purports to be issued by or emanate from a court, knowing that the document is not issued by or does not emanate from the court concerned; (h) publishing evidence that has been given in camera or which the court has ordered should not be published. (3) It shall be a defence to a charge of contempt of court in the circumstances mentioned in paragraphs (d) of subsection (2) that the person charged was criticising, fairly, temperately and without malice, the administration of justice, the conduct of a judicial officer, or any decision or proceedings of a court. 183 Perjury (1) Any person who, in the course of or for the purpose of judicial proceedings, makes a false statement upon oath, whether the statement is written or oral⎯ (a) knowing that the statement is false; or (b) realising that there is a real risk or possibility that it may be false; shall be guilty of perjury and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or both. (2) For the purpose of subsection (1)⎯ (a) a statement may be false by reason of the omission of facts as well as by the assertion of untrue or incorrect facts; (b) it shall be immaterial that⎯ (i) the judicial proceedings concerned are held or will be held before a court that is not properly constituted or that lacks jurisdiction to entertain the proceedings; or (ii) the person who makes the false statement is not a competent witness in the judicial proceedings concerned; or (iii) the statement is irrelevant to or inadmissible as evidence in the judicial proceedings concerned. - 105 -