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Sheffield City Council v Brooke
[2018] EWHC 1540 (QB)
Key Principle
On an application to commit for contempt for breach of an injunction, defence of another may in principle justify entering a prohibited safety zone where the contemnor held a genuine (even if mistaken) belief that intervention was necessary to prevent immediate harm and did no more than was reasonably necessary; the contempt must be proved to the criminal standard.
Area of Law
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