Section 47 of Small Claims Court Act (CAP. 10A): Contempt of Court
Contempt of Court (1) A person who—
(a) assaults, threatens, intimates or wilfully insults an Adjudicator, judicial officer or a witness, involved in a case during a sitting or attendance in a court, or while the Adjudicator, judicial officer or witness is travelling to and from a court;
(b) wilfully and without lawful excuse disobeys an order or direction of the court in the course of the hearing of proceedings;
(c) within the premises in which any judicial proceedings are being heard or taken, or within the precincts of the same, shows disrespect, in speech or manner, to or with reference to such proceedings, or any person before whom such proceedings are being heard or taken;
(d) having been called upon to give evidence in a judicial proceeding, fails to attend, or having been sworn or affirmed, refuses without lawful excuse to answer a question or to produce a document, or remains in the room in which such proceedings are being heard or taken after the witnesses have been ordered to leave such room;
(e) causes an obstruction or disturbance in the cause of judicial proceedings;
(f) while judicial proceedings are pending, makes use of any speech or writing misrepresenting such proceedings or capable of prejudicing any person in favour of or against any parties to such proceedings, or calculated to lower the authority taken;
(g) publishes a report of the evidence taken in any judicial proceedings that has been directed to be held in private;
(h) attempts wrongfully to interfere with or influence a witness in judicial proceedings, either before or after he or she has given evidence in connection with such evidence;
(i)dismisses a servant because he or she has given evidence on behalf of a party to judicial proceedings; or
(j) commits any other act of intentional disrespect to any judicial proceedings, or to any person before whom such proceedings are heard or taken, commits an offence.
(2) A police officer may, by order of the Court, take into custody and detain a person who commits an offence under subsection (1) until the court adjourns.
(3) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five days, or to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings, or to both.
(4) In exercise of its powers under this section, the court shall observe the principles of fair administration of justice set out in Article 47 of the Constitution.
(a) assaults, threatens, intimates or wilfully insults an Adjudicator, judicial officer or a witness, involved in a case during a sitting or attendance in a court, or while the Adjudicator, judicial officer or witness is travelling to and from a court;
(b) wilfully and without lawful excuse disobeys an order or direction of the court in the course of the hearing of proceedings;
(c) within the premises in which any judicial proceedings are being heard or taken, or within the precincts of the same, shows disrespect, in speech or manner, to or with reference to such proceedings, or any person before whom such proceedings are being heard or taken;
(d) having been called upon to give evidence in a judicial proceeding, fails to attend, or having been sworn or affirmed, refuses without lawful excuse to answer a question or to produce a document, or remains in the room in which such proceedings are being heard or taken after the witnesses have been ordered to leave such room;
(e) causes an obstruction or disturbance in the cause of judicial proceedings;
(f) while judicial proceedings are pending, makes use of any speech or writing misrepresenting such proceedings or capable of prejudicing any person in favour of or against any parties to such proceedings, or calculated to lower the authority taken;
(g) publishes a report of the evidence taken in any judicial proceedings that has been directed to be held in private;
(h) attempts wrongfully to interfere with or influence a witness in judicial proceedings, either before or after he or she has given evidence in connection with such evidence;
(i)dismisses a servant because he or she has given evidence on behalf of a party to judicial proceedings; or
(j) commits any other act of intentional disrespect to any judicial proceedings, or to any person before whom such proceedings are heard or taken, commits an offence.
(2) A police officer may, by order of the Court, take into custody and detain a person who commits an offence under subsection (1) until the court adjourns.
(3) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five days, or to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings, or to both.
(4) In exercise of its powers under this section, the court shall observe the principles of fair administration of justice set out in Article 47 of the Constitution.
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