CONTEMPT — Civil contempt — Breach of orders — where orders required executors to file and serve a statement of accounts (in common form) — where new orders were made requiring more detailed accounts and documents to be produced — where executors filed and served accounts purportedly in response to both orders — where contempt charges brought in relation to both orders — whether contempt charge in relation to first orders has utility — where executors' accounts did not cover the whole period of their administration of the deceased’s estate but breach fully remedied by compliance with new orders — discretion not to exercise contempt jurisdiction — whether charges in relation to second orders should be dismissed for imprecision — whether contempt charges are an abuse of process where applicants also seeking relief to revoke the grant of probate to the executors — where contempt charges in relation to later orders raise multiple alleged breaches — finding of limited breaches and civil contempt
Case Details
Citation[2022] NSWSC 780
CourtNSWSC
JurisdictionNew South Wales
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