Attachment and Committal in UK Law

  • Hadkinson v Hadkinson
    • Court of Appeal
    • 25 July 1952
    ... ... to matters of procedure) is in contempt and may be punished by committal or attachment or otherwise. The second is that no application to the Court ... ...
  • Attorney General v Butterworth
    • Court of Appeal
    • 16 July 1962
  • Jsc Bta Bank (Respondent / Claimant) v Mukhtar Ablyazov
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 06 November 2012
    ... ... I will refer to the three judgments as the "committal" judgment, the "sentence" judgment, and the "unless" judgment ... compliance by Mr Ablyazov with the disclosure would leave the attachment of a debarring order to the surrender with no purpose to fulfil in ... ...
  • Z Ltd v A-Z and AA-LL
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 December 1981
    ... ... It operates just as the process of foreign attachment used to do in the City of London, and still does in the United States of ... in doing acts in breach of the injunction is liable to committal for contempt although the order for an injunction was made in an action to ... ...
  • AJ Bekhor & Company Ltd v Bilton
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 06 February 1981
    ... ... It is not a form of pre-trial attachment, but a relief in personam which prohibits certain acts in relation to ... course is understandable enough, since their concern was not the committal of the appellant to prison, but the preservation of his assets, so as to ... ...
  • Nicholls v Nicholls
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 December 1997
    ... ... the effect of procedural irregularities on the validity of committal orders. It is an area where there has been a change of emphasis in the ... for the handing over of the child, an order for committal or attachment cannot be made against the parent who refuses to hand over the child as ... ...
  • MBR Acres Ltd v Michael Maher (aka John Thibeault)
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 16 May 2022
    ... ... CPR 81.7 (2); N603 Order under CPR 81.9 ; and N604 Warrant of Committal under CPR 81.9 ... 55 CPR 81.1 provides: “(1) ... know that the processes of contempt of court at common law were attachment and committal, and the punishment, imprisonment at discretion, fine at ... ...
  • Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 October 1999
    ... ... As a result of that personal attachment to each other other characteristics will follow, such as a readiness to ... was long term and characterised by emotional and financial committal and inter-dependence. In the majority judgment Titone J. stated at pages ... ...
  • McIlraith v Grady
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 July 1967
    ... ... 6 On the committal proceedings Mr Grady employed a solicitor. Mr Grady went into the witness ... 's prison at Norwich for his contempt and that a warrant of attachment for the arrest of the said Grady be forthwith issued" ... 10 ... ...
  • Babanaft International Company S.A. v Bassatne
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 June 1988
    ... ... the plaintiffs to use the disclosed information to obtain an attachment of the defendant's assets in other jurisdictions. That was a pre-judgment ... ...
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