JUDGMENT
I find it appropriate to commence this Judgment with the words of Lord Morris in the case of Attorney-General v Times Newspaper Ltd [1974] AC 273 @ 302, HL where the Learned Judge stated,
"in an ordered community courts are established for the pacific settlement of disputes and for the maintenance of law and order. In the general interest of the community, it is imperative that the authority of the courts should not be imperiled and that recourse to them should not be subject to unjustifiable interference. When such unjustifiable interference is suppressed, it is not because those charged with the responsibilities of administering justice are concerned for their own dignity: it is because the very structure of ordered life is at risk if the recognized courts of the land are so flouted that their authority wanes and is supplanted”
The power to punish for contempt is a judicial whip entrusted to the custodian of the justice delivery system to correct members of the public who by t…