JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov: CA 6 Nov 2012

A appealed from three judgments of Mr Justice Teare under which the judge has respectively (i) found him guilty of contempt of court; (ii) sentenced him on each of three proven contempts to 22 months in custody concurrently; and (iii) in consequence has made an ‘unless’ order whereby Mr Ablyazov will be debarred from defending the claims made against him, and his defences will be struck out, unless within a stated period he both surrenders to custody and makes proper disclosure of all his assets and his dealings with them.

Judges:

Maurice Kay VP, Rix, Toulson LJJ

Citations:

[2012] EWCA Civ 1411, [2012] WLR(D) 308, [2013] 2 All ER 515, [2013] 1 WLR 1331

Links:

Bailii, WLRD

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

See AlsoJSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov (Recusal) CA 28-Nov-2012
The question was whether a judge had been right not to recuse himself as the nominated judge of trial, in circumstances where he had had to hear, prior to trial, an application to commit one of the parties for contempt of court and had found a . .
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Contempt of Court, Litigation Practice

Updated: 06 November 2022; Ref: scu.465557