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12 July 2020
Issue: 7894 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Contempt
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NLJ this week: In contempt & confused

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Family lawyer and NLJ columnist David Burrows works his way through a maze of legal aid provisions and considers the frequently misunderstood rule of contempt of court, in this week’s NLJ

Contempt proceedings, he writes, ‘are shot through with a variety of terminology which will not be familiar to most people; and which is confusing even for some judges.’ He warns the process of obtaining legal aid for contempt proceedings is likely to leave most people baffled and, worse, unrepresented. 

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Issue: 7894 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Contempt
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