Contempt of court
Law Commission proposes tidying up the law
Major changes to the “disorganised and, at times, incoherent” law of contempt are proposed in a 500-page consultation paper today by the government’s independent law reform advisers for England and Wales.
The Law Commission is proposing to do away with the centuries-old distinction between criminal contempt and civil contempt, which it regards as unnece…
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