Re C (A Child) (Committal Proceedings) sub nom C v M (2005) CA 24/10/2005

A father (F) was found to have been in contempt of court for breach of an injunction granted in favour of the mother. The injunction prohibited the F’s publishing or disclosing information regarding the children proceedings. He had published judgments on an internet site in such a way as to identify the child, for which he had received a 28 suspended committal order. However, there had been no order expressly restraining the publication of the judgments and no penal notice. Although F had been wrong to publish the judgments, where the liberty of the subject was at stake the order needed to be very specific and to provide an adequate warning of the consequences of breach. The committal order was discharged.

Court: Court Of Appeal (England and Wales)