Practice Direction: Committal for Contempt of Court - Open Court

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date2015
Year2015
CourtSenior Courts
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7 cases
  • Esper v NHS NW London ICB (Appeal: Anonymity in Committal Proceedings)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Protection
    • 10 July 2023
    ...in committal proceedings are less than clear. PD 2015 and COPR r21.8(5) 10 The preamble at paragraph 1 of the Practice Direction: Committal for Contempt of Court – Open Court [2015] 1 WLR 2195 (PD 2015) makes it clear that it applies to proceedings for committal for contempt of court under......
  • Vis Trading Company Ltd v Nazarov and Ors
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 18 November 2015
    ...Gunning QC and Mr Chatterjee, who appeared for the Claimant, reminded me of the Practice Direction, Committal for Contempts: Open Court [2015] 1 WLR 2195, Senior Courts, paragraph 13, which requires that I state in open Court, at the end of the hearing, "in general the nature of the contem......
  • GML International Ltd v Jonathan Henry Martyn Harfield
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 15 September 2020
    ...the sentence, I have borne in mind that the maximum sentence for contempt is two years. The Practice Direction, Committal for Contempt [2015] 1 WLR 2195, imposes specific requirements regarding judgments in committal cases. In paragraphs 13 to 15 it sets out those requirements. These are t......
  • Cheshire East Borough Council v Michael Maloney
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 4 May 2021
    ...to the national media and the Judicial Office pursuant to para. 13.4 of the Practice Direction: Committal for Contempt — Open Court [2015] 1 WLR 2195. 13 I direct that copies of the judgment shall then be provided to the parties and the national media via the Copy Direct Service. Copies sh......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Contempt of Court: The Case Against Rushing to Judgment
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 82-5, October 2018
    • 1 October 2018
    ...to deal with it (s. 7). Contempt proceedings should be held in public (Practice Direction:Committal for Contempt of Court—Open Court [2015] 1 WLR 2195).Section 41(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 makes it a criminal offence to:a. take or attempt to take in any court any photograph, or wi......

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