NLJ this week: Changes to contempt

Charles Kimmins QC & Andrew Dinsmore, both of Twenty Essex Chambers, provide an overview of the changes, in this week’s NLJ.

They write that it’s ‘a welcome change in simplifying the procedure for bringing a contempt application’, which will ‘reduce the time required and costs involved’. However, they highlight five points that merit particular attention, including that the new rules reduce the instances where a party requires the court’s permission to bring a contempt application.