Sentences with phrase «contempt application»
A "contempt application" refers to a legal request made to a court for someone to be held in contempt, which means they have disobeyed a court order or shown disrespect to the authority of the court. It is a way for the court to enforce its orders and maintain order and respect within the judicial system. Full definition
The embattled judge is arguing before the court that «despite the pendency of these two applications before this Court, [Justice Torkonoo] in outright disrespect of this Court caused a hearing notice to be served on me to appear before her on 3rd December, 2015, for the hearing of the same contempt application which [she] had already dealt with on the 28th and 29th September, 2015 and dismissed.»
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In a further judgment, the judge went on to award Mr Maksimov 80 % of his costs of the contempt proceedings since January 2014 (PJSC VAB v. Maksimov [2014] EWHC 4370 (Comm)-RRB- giving important guidance to litigants as to the appropriateness of bringing contempt applications in freezing order cases and the costs consequences should such applications fail or succeed merely on «technical» grounds.
Re Bellini (2015 - ongoing): Anti suit injunction and contempt applications in context of wrongful Dubai proceedings.
With its accompanying Practice Direction 81 this is the procedural framework for contempt applications, though it does not affect the underlying law.
Justice Burrows indicated (at para 75) that the County should have availed itself of that process in this case and foregone the «poorly advised» contempt application which «served no purpose.»
He said when his lawyers appeared in court, Justice Torkonoo «surprisingly purported to exercise jurisdiction over the contempt application although that was not the business of the day and gave a ruling vacating the earlier order she made dismissing the said application.»
Subsequently however she realized the unlawfulness of the dismissal and set aside suo motu her own ruling and restored the contempt application which is also still pending at the High Court against Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
Earlier, the Chief Justice, Mrs. Georgina Theodora Wood and Justice Sulley Gbadegbe recused themselves from the panel to hear the contempt application
Justice Olomu said since he was the one that SaharaReporters and Sowore treated contemptuously, he would prefer the contempt application filed by Saraki to be sent to the Chief Judge of Kwara State for re-assignment to another judge.
The judge later withdrew himself from the hearing of a contempt application filed against SaharaReporters and Sowore by Saraki.
We've sent an e-mail [to federal counsel on April 24] demanding that the government comply with the order immediately and, if they don't, we will have to bring a contempt application.»
That leaves the possibility of a contempt application after a criminal dismissal but with the probability of a strike out as an abuse.
The High Court has recently given permission for a contempt application to proceed.
However, the court may refuse a contempt application unless the respondent has made a signed statement showing that he understands the terms of the undertaking and the consequences of disobedience (CPR 81PD.3, para 2.2).