Assured Energy LLP and [1] Raymond Pollock [2] Martha Elizabeth Pollock
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | Mr Simpson KC sitting as HCJ |
| Judgment Date | 23 April 2023 |
| Neutral Citation | [2023] NICh 2 |
| Court | Chancery Division (Northern Ireland) |
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Neutral Citation No: [2023] NICh 2
Judgment: approved by the court for handing down
(subject to editorial corrections)*
Ref: SIM12117
ICOS No: 17/42455
Delivered: 24/03/23
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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CHANCERY DIVISION
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Between:
ASSURED ENERGY LLP
Plaintiff/Applicant
and
[1] RAYMOND POLLOCK
First Defendant/Respondent
[2] MARTHA ELIZABETH POLLOCK
Second Defendant
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Patrick Good KC with Keith Gibson (instructed by Cleaver Fulton Rankin, Solicitors) for the
Plaintiff/Applicant
Peter Hopkins (instructed by McCay Solicitors) for the First Defendant/Respondent
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SIMPSON J
Introduction
[1] This judgment relates to two applications by the plaintiff in the action to commit
the first defendant for contempt of court as a result of his failures to abide by undertakings
given to the court on 19 September 2017. The second defendant is not involved in these
applications. Both applications ask that the first defendant “be committed to prison
and/or fined” for identified breaches of the undertakings.
[2] For the context of the applications in this case it is fortunately only necessary to set
out very brief details of the background facts.
[3] The plaintiff is involved in the production and sale of electricity through anaerobic
digester plants, generally constructed and operated in conjunction with third party
landowners, such as the first defendant. In 2014 the plaintiff agreed a lease for 21 years of
lands owned by the first defendant in County Tyrone. On that land the plaintiff built an
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