Kennedy LJ said: ‘the power to commit to prison [for a failure to pay local taxes] is plainly to be used as a weapon to extract payment rather than to punish’
Judges:
Kennedy LJ
Citations:
[1992] RA 309
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission v Gibbons; Same v Karoonian CA 30-Oct-2012
Non-resident parents in each case appealed against suspended orders of imprisonment for non-payment of child support. They argued that the procedures used were indistinguishable from those held to be human rights non-compliant in Mubarak.
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Rating, Magistrates
Updated: 04 May 2022; Ref: scu.509335
