Law Of Contempt Essay

INTRODUCTION

Purpose and Objective of the Contempt:

A law is that confers the greatest good on the greater number.

It is used to be said as “salus populi suprema lex” which means for the welfare of the people which is the supreme law.

The welfare of the people can be obtained if there is justice which is administered lawfully and judicially without any fear and favour and the people who are responsible for administration of such justice and those who are seeking for justice as parties from them and those who help in the administration of the justice by giving out what they know about the contentions amongst the parties- but have to be protected from embracement, annoyance or even impediment.

It is believed by the court that there should be no nasty hand that shall touch the pure foundation of justice.

The law of contempt is intended to be a protection to

Mere disobedience by a party to a civil action of a specific order of the court made on him in that action is classified as a “Civil Contempt”. The order is made at the request and for the sole benefit of the party to the civil action. There is an element of public policy in punishing civil contempt, since the administration of justice would be undermined if the order of any court of law could be disregarding with impunity, but no sufficient public interest is served by punishing the offender if the only person for whose benefit the order was made chooses not to insist on its enforcement. All other contempt’s of court are classified as “Criminal Contempt”, whether the particular proceedings to which the conduct of the contemnor relates are themselves criminal proceedings or are civil litigation between individual citizens. This is because it is public interest in the due administration of justice, civil as well as criminal, in the established courts of law that it is sought to protect by making those who commit criminal contempt’s of court subject to summary