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Contempt of Court - From: 1960 To: 1969
This page lists 6 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.
Attorney-General v Butterworth [1962] 3 All ER 326 CA; [1962] 3 WLR 819; LR 3 RP 327; [1963] 1 QB 696
1962
CA
Contempt of Court
The court considered the penalisation of a witness who had given evidence in contempt of the court.
1 Citers
Mileage Conference Group of the Tyre Manufacturers' Conference Ltd's Agreement [1966] 2 All ER 849; [1966] 1 WLR 1137
1966
Contempt of Court
A substantial fine was imposed for contempt by breach of an undertaking which was not merely non-contumacious, but was committed reasonably on legal advice.
1 Citers
Re Hudson, Hudson v Hudson [1966] Ch 209
1966
Buckley LJ
Contempt of Court
There is no right to sue a contemnor for the contempt alone and there is no civil right to damages and no power for the court to award compensation to the other party for the contemnor's actions. The principle upon which the court acts on an application for a release of an undertaking given to it is to ascertain whether good cause for such a release is shown.
Buckley LJ said: "The only sanction for breach of an undertaking would be the imprisonment of the culprit or sequestration of his assets or a fine on the ground of his contempt of court. An undertaking given to the court, unless the circumstances are such that it has some collateral contractual operation between the parties concerned, confers no personal right or remedy upon any other party. The giver of the undertaking assumes thereby an obligation to the court but to nobody else."
1 Citers
Regina v Savundranayagan and Walker; CACD 1968 - [1968] 3 All ER 439; [1968] 52 Cr App R 637
PA Thomas and Co v Mould [1968] 1 All ER 963; [1968] 2 WLR 737; [1968] 2 QB 913
1968
QBD
O'Connor J
Intellectual Property, Litigation Practice, Contempt of Court
The court urged caution in the grant of an injunction to protect information for which confidence was claimed but where that claim might not succeed. O'Connor J refused to enforce by committal an injunction restraining the defendants from making use of certain confidential information acquired by them during their employment, when the nature of the alleged confidential information had not been specified in the evidence or disclosed to the court.
O'Connor J said: "But where parties seek to invoke the power of the court to commit people to prison and deprive them of their liberty, there has got to be quite clear certainty about it."
1 Citers
Re W (B) (An Infant) [1969] 2 Ch 50
1969
CA
Lord Denning MR, Russell, Winn LJJ
Contempt of Court
Where part of a sentence for contempt was suspended, and the defendant failed to meet the condition required for continued suspension, the court was not under an obligation to make the suspended part operative.
1 Citers
