What are the principles governing a contempt application?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Warde v. Slatter Holdings Ltd., 2016 BCCA 63 (CanLII):
Contempt proceedings are quasi-criminal in nature. The principles governing a contempt application were reviewed in Bassett v. Magee, 2015 BCCA 422:
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