Law Commission consultation on contempt of court

We invite consultees to provide data and evidence-based views on the likely economic costs and benefits of our provisional proposals for:

(1) a new framework for contempt liability and contempt procedure;

(2) expansion of contempt in tribunals;

(3) a wider range of sanctions, pre-sentence reports and guidelines for sentencing for contempt;

(4) transparency and publication of judgments; or

(5) any other provisional proposals which do not fall within the above four categories and which consultees have not already discussed in responses to other consultation questions.

We invite consultees to tell us if they believe or have evidence or data to suggest that any of our provisional proposals could result in advantages or disadvantages to certain groups, whether or not those groups are protected under the Equality Act 2010, and which those consultees have not already raised in relation to other consultation questions.