He also has a particular interest in complex
civil fraud cases, for both claimants and defendants, including obtaining and enforcing interim remedies, applications to
commit for
contempt, and jurisdictional issues, both in England and offshore.
The nature of this assessment becomes extremely important when a judge determines, as a judge did two weeks ago in British Columbia, that a
civil contempt has been
committed by a family litigant which should be punished with imprisonment.