While imprisonment remains a punishment of last resort in civil contempt proceedings, the staged sentencing approach from R v Zamagias does not apply, and the principles from criminal sentencing do not apply without qualification; the power to suspend derives from Pt 55 r 13 of the Supreme Court Rules, not the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act.
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