What is the test for a contempt application?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sands Management Company Limited v Pacific Sands Beach Resort Ltd., 2017 BCSC 2054 (CanLII):
Because civil contempt proceedings are quasi-criminal in nature, the rules of strictissimi juris apply. Evidence in support of the contempt application must be admissible at trial; no hearsay, opinion or conclusions are receivable: Jackson v. Honey, 2009 BCCA 112 at para. 12.
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