Sentences with phrase «civil contempt sanctions»
Criminal contempt sanctions are the same as civil contempt sanctions except they can not be purged.
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Can contempt of custody, visitation and child related restraint issues truly be remedied by civil rather than criminal sanctions?
Since the contempt initially sought is civil in nature, the contemptuous party is entitled to «purge» the contempt — that is, given some opportunity to avoid these sanctions.
Civil contempt hearings are typically bifurcated into two phases: the first dealing with whether or not the party is in contempt; and the second dealing with the appropriate remedy or sanction.
A contemnor is subject to a range of judicial sanctions which, to a large extent, depends on whether the contempt was civil contempt or criminal contempt.
A contempt sanction is civil if it is «remedial» but criminal if «punitive.»
He called my attention to the case of Chiang (and Trustee of) v. Chiang, [2009] O.J. 41 where the Court of Appeal observed that custodial sentences for civil contempt are rare, and that ordinarily incarceration is a sanction of last resort.