Sunderland City Council v MacPherson [2024] EWCOP 8

Further judgment in ongoing contempt of court proceedings ​

A summary of the previous judgment setting out the immediate background to this hearing can be found here. At that hearing, the defendant had been given a suspended sentence for repeated postings of confidential material on social media. Since that judgment the defendant, who had now moved to France, had republished the offend material but denied she had breached any orders as she was exercising 'her Article 10 right to freedom of expression, and that the injunctive order was made illegally by a corrupt court, which did not provide her with her Article 6 right to a fair hearing'. 

Mr Justice Poole dismissed those claims and concluded the breaches met the criminal standard for contempt. He then proceeds to impose an immediate jail sentence. 

Read the judgment on Bailii