In last week’s Tales from the Coffeeshop, Patroclos asked rhetorically: is everyone who publicly repeats some wild allegation about the courts investigated for contempt? To which the answer is a very English yes and no.
Broadly speaking publishing an unfounded scurrilous allegation that a court was influenced by outside pressure to reach a particular decision is capable of being in contempt if it scandalises the court.
The contempt is not
