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04 December 2020
Issue: 7913 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice
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NLJ this week: Changes to contempt

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Contempt of court applications have been overhauled by the new CPR Pt 81.

Charles Kimmins QC & Andrew Dinsmore, both of Twenty Essex Chambers, provide an overview of the changes, in this week’s NLJ.

They write that it’s ‘a welcome change in simplifying the procedure for bringing a contempt application’, which will ‘reduce the time required and costs involved’. However, they highlight five points that merit particular attention, including that the new rules reduce the instances where a party requires the court’s permission to bring a contempt application.

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