What is the appropriate sentencing in a contempt proceeding?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dumont v Lucescu, 2016 ONSC 1042 (CanLII):
Justice Quigley in Szyngiel v. Rintoul determined that the sentencing in a contempt proceeding, particularly in family law proceedings, should be comprised of two components. The components are a restorative to the victim of the contempt, and a punitive component to the contemnor.[3]
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