Specific features of the legal regulation of prosecution for contempt of court: judicial rules established in different countries

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to reveal the specific features of prosecution for contempt of court in different countries. The methodological basis of this research is a set of general scientific methods (dialectics, abstraction, generalization, analysis, modelling) and special methods of scientific cognition (comparative and legal method, etc.). The existing types of responsibility and penalties for committing contempt of court in different countries of the world have been characterized. The authors have carried out the analysis of the experience of legal liability for manifestation of contempt of court rules established in the United States, Canada, France, Australia, Belgium, Poland, Great Britain, New Zealand, Ireland and India, which allowed to highlight the positive provisions for improvement of legislation in this area. It has been concluded that the purpose of establishing the aforementioned responsibility is to guarantee the administration of justice and the rule of law, maintain and strengthen public confidence in the judicial system, safeguarding the continuity of the judicial process. Based on the analysis of regulatory legal acts and the jurisprudence of several countries in the world, the authors have made the classification by categories of actions that qualify as contempt.