What is the essence of the contempt authority to reassert the rule of law?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Peel Regional Police Service, Chief of Police, 2000 CanLII 22808 (ON SC):
It is the essence of the contempt authority to reassert the rule of law where there exists, in effect, a contempt of the rule of law. This may indeed be what Lord Edmund-Davies had in mind in Attorney-General v. Leveller Magazine Ltd., supra, at 458 when he lamented that the court’s exercise of power was still called contempt of court.
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