[2025] EWHC 2501 (Ch)

Mr Watson and Mr Robins agreed that Trower J was right in Cole v Carpenter to say that only limited weight should be given to the possible penalty to be imposed for contempt. They both accepted that it was not really possible to speculate, with any accuracy, as to what penalty might be imposed, if Mr Ginda were found to be in contempt. I do not consider the likely penalty in this case is a factor that militates either for or against granting permission for Sanman to take contempt proceedings under grounds 1 and 5.