4.3 Sanction on Contempt of Court

1. The punishment's menu: the imprisonment (the contempt's criminal face (the short-term's typical range)); the fine; the apology's acceptance (the contrition's mitigation (the purge's face)); the order's compliance (the civil-face's enforcement).2. The procedural discipline: the notice-and-hearing (the ex-facie's due-process (the charge's specification (the reply's opportunity))); the court's own-motion-and-the-reference's faces (the SC's-and-HC's contempt jurisdiction (the contempt powers' statutory anchoring (the honest note: the contempt machinery's statutory faces (the court-administration statutes'provisions))); the genuine-inquiry privilege (the good-faith-criticism's protection (the contempt's chilling-effect's answer (the balance the exam demands))).3. The media's defences (the exam's list): the fair-and-accurate-report; the public-record's publication; the parallel-commentary; the innocent-publication (the knowledge's absence); the bona-fide-criticism (the judge-not-judiciary's line's debate).