§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Attorney-General whether he will give for the longest and most convenient stated period of time the number of persons or organisations who have been fined for failing 30W to carry out court orders; details of those whose fines ranged between £1,000 and £55,000; and how many were in each stated category.
§ The Attorney-GeneralFull figures for all courts are not available. In the past 10 years, 17 fines for civil contempt, one of £100 and the remainder ranging between £2,000 and £25,000, have been imposed by the Restrictive Practices Court; and two fines, one of £5,000 and one of £50,000 by the National Industrial Relations Court.
The figure for the High Court over the same period is 21 fines but this includes both civil and criminal contempts since the records do not distinguish between them. No fine imposed by the High Court for civil contempt was of as much as £1,000.