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Wright v Rogers [2022] EWCA Civ 1658
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Wright v Rogers [2022] EWCA Civ 1658

byPriya Vaidya

“Keeping a contemnor out of prison”

The case: An appeal against an order for immediate committal to prison for breach of an injunction. The terms of the order were, so far as relevant, as follows:- 

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