What is the test for contempt for society's judicial institutions?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lundrigan Group Ltd v Pilgrim, 1989 CanLII 3952 (NL CA):
Secondly,- the defendant must also show that his or her conduct has been bona fide in relation to the delay and that it is explicable and reasonable in the circumstances. (See Attwood v. Chichester (1878), 3 Q.B.D. 722.) If the conduct of the defendant exhibits an attitude of dealing with the matter in his or her own time such conduct in itself might evidence a contempt for society's judicial institutions disentitling the defendant to relief and tipping the scales in favour of the judgment creditor.
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