"Contempt" charges likely to increase
E. ALLEN SMITH
EALLENSMITH at ocelot.Rutgers.EDU
Fri Apr 12 19:29:52 PDT 1996
From: IN%"unicorn at schloss.li" "Black Unicorn" 6-APR-1996 16:17:13.99
>I might add that the Cayman Islands are full of trust companies with
>provisions which forbid the disclosure of data to a client who is
>coerced. A law on the books refuses to recognize "consent" orders made
>under judicial compulsion. This would give the appearance of total
>unavailability of evidence and suggest the futility of contempt
>charges. Yet courts have still, and with no small measure of success,
>imposed sanctions on witnesses so protected.
What measure of success? Getting the data, or locking up the witness?
-Allen
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