THE REPUBLIC vs. NETLYNK ESTATES LIMITED & ANOR, EX PARTE; JESUS & MARY SCHOOL LTD.

1 Background The power of the Court, statutory or inherent to punish for contempt of court is multifaceted; exercisable in its various forms in appropriate circumstances not just to ensure enforcement of its judgments, decrees or orders but also to punish in appropriate cases where the court’s exclusive constitutional and statutory authority to exercise final judicial powers in matters presented and pending before it, is deliberately, or even inadvertently being disrespected, disregarded or whittled away by a party in the suit, or persons connected to the party. This contempt power is exercisable by order of committal mostly upon application to the court. The object among others is to protect and preserve the power, dignity and integrity of the court not solely to itself but largely also in the public interest as the custodian of the rights and liberties of the citizenry and the exclusive holder and exercise of final judicial power in effective, unfettered, smooth and efficaci.....