The person in contempt had failed to comply with a series of asset-tracing orders which ‘depended critically’ upon the rightfulness of a default judgment earlier obtained against him. The court did not prevent him challenging the basis of those orders despite being in contempt of them. The court considered the procedure where a contemnor sought to set aside the order he was claimed to be in contempt of.
Citations:
Ind Summary 26-Sep-1994, Unreported, 15 September 1994
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Motorola Credit Corporation v Uzan and others (No 2) CA 12-Jun-2003
World-wide freezing orders had been made under the 1982 Act. The defendants were members of a Turkish family with substantial business interests in the telecommunications industry. In breach of orders made in the US some defendants had sought to . .
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Litigation Practice, Contempt of Court
Updated: 26 October 2022; Ref: scu.183508
