I caught the Deputy Attorney General for Saskatchewan and two other lawyers in court in the position of being up
on contempt sanctions.
Not exact matches
2014)(affirming
contempt sanctions imposed for failure to comply with order requiring the company to assist law enforcement with effecting a pen register
on encrypted e-mail content which included producing private SSL encryption key).
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.
You'll be in a situation where you're trussed into a process — there used to be a sense that if you went
on the witness stand and you took an oath then you would tell the truth because the
sanctions for not telling the truth were very great, people were worries about perjury and
contempt of court — and in fact the family courts can make a reference to the criminal courts for prosecution for perjury but they just don't do it.
In my experience, these cases are the ones in which the court is most likely to impose criminal
contempt sanctions on custodial parents.
The applicant's motivation will not prevent a finding of
contempt, but may weigh heavily both
on sanction and costs.
On April 4, 1996, the court affirmed the ruling denying modification of visitation, and the finding of
contempt against the two girls, but reversed the
sanctions imposed and remanded for further proceedings.