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Contempt of Court and the new CPR Part 81 - Andrew Granville Stafford, 4 King's Bench Walk

19/11/12. The new Part 81 of the CPR, which came in to effect on 1 October 2012, sets out the procedure to be applied in contempt of court proceedings. The old rules were to be found, confusingly, in three different places: Order 52 of the Rules of the Supreme Court (in Annex 1 to the CPR) and Orders 29 and 34 of the County Court Rules (Annex 2). Part 81 now brings those rules under one roof. Whilst essentially this is a re-codification exercise, Part 81 does contain some minor departures from the old procedure.

Contempt of court is a creature not of the rules of court but of the common law. It derives from the court’s inherent power to police its own procedure. The penalties for contempt are, however, prescribed by...

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