What is the appropriate sentence for contempt of court in a family law case?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Szyngiel v. Rintoul, 2014 ONSC 3298 (CanLII):
Sentencing in contempt proceedings, particularly in family law proceedings, should be comprised of two components. It should be restorative to the victim of the contempt and punitive to the contemnor. To accomplish the former requires the sentence to correlate to the conduct that produced the contempt and to accomplish the latter requires the sentence not to reflect a marked departure from those imposed in like circumstances. (See Germia v. Herb.)
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