What is the appropriate punishment for disobeying a court order?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bilhete v Wong, 2014 ABQB 142 (CanLII):
As Veit, J said in Jervis v. Nendze 2002 ABQB 673 (CanLII), at para 28, it “goes without saying that the sanction imposed for disobeying a court order should be proportional to the harm caused: the punishment should fit the crime”.
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