Catchwords:

CONTEMPT – criminal contempt – where appellant engaged in conduct found to amount to a contumacious disregard of Court orders – where sentencing judge imposed a sentence of six weeks’ imprisonment – whether sentencing judge failed to consider possibility of suspending sentence for contempt – whether sentencing judge erred in failing to suspend the sentence – whether sentence was manifestly excessive.

SENTENCING – criminal contempt – where sentencing judge imposed a sentence of six weeks’ imprisonment – whether sentencing judge erred in failing to suspend the sentence – power to suspend a sentence for criminal contempt in the Supreme Court’s civil jurisdiction – whether sentence was manifestly excessive.