When determining penalty for civil contempt arising from non-compliance with a court order, the court may take into account the economic and personal losses suffered by the contemnor as a result of compliance with the underlying order, and may limit the penalty to a declaration of contempt and indemnity costs where compliance has been achieved, the delay was partly explicable, and the contemnor has apologised.
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