On 22 May 20224, the Court of Appeal handed down its Judgment upholding Janes Solicitors’ client Selman Turk’s appeal against the immediate custodial sentence for Contempt of Court imposed by the High Court. In a 172 page Judgment which can be read at Isbilen v Turk & Ors [2024] EWCA Civ 568 (22 May 2024), […]
Cases concerning allegations of Contempt of Court never seem to be far from the legal news at the moment. High profile examples have included: a solicitor being found in contempt after giving an instruction to “burn it” in reference to messages caught by a search order (Ocado Group Plc & Anor v McKeeve [2022] EWHC […]
The leak of the United States Supreme Court’s draft opinion, purportedly confirming that the Court is preparing to rule in favour of the State of Mississippi that the State is permitted to stop the vast majority of abortions at and after 15 weeks gestation, is making shockwaves all over the world. This is primarily due […]
Costs Orders in Contempt Proceedings seem like they should be simple on the surface. However, scratch a little deeper and there are a number of anomalies and ambiguities that need to be resolved. Following the 2019 case of All England Lawn Tennis Club Ltd and All England Lawn Tennis Ground Plc v Luke McKay [2019] […]
The Supreme Court has handed down Judgment in Brownlie v FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC [2021] UKSC 45 bringing to an end an issue that has been before the Courts in one way or another for the last 8 years – can Lady Brownlie, the widow of the eminent international lawyer, the late Sir Ian […]
Applications for Committal for contempt of court in civil proceedings are a niche and distinctive area of law. They are of a quasi-criminal nature, but exist within the framework of Civil Procedure, thus combining two separate fields of law that tend not to interact with each other. However, at Janes Solicitors, our criminal solicitors, armed […]
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