ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Contempt of Court Act
4. Contempt of Court
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
4. Contempt of Court
(1)Contempt of court includes—(a)civil contempt which means willful disobedience of any judgment, decree, direction, order, or other process of a court or willful breach of an undertaking given to a court;(b)criminal contempt which means the publication, whether by words, spoken or written, by signs, visible representation, or otherwise, of any matters or the doing of any other act which—(i)scandalizes or tends to scandalize, or lowers or tends to lower the judicial authority or dignity of the court;(ii)prejudices, or interferes or tends to interfere with, the due course of any judicial proceeding; or(iii)interferes or tends to interfere with, or obstructs or tends to obstruct the administration of justice.(2)In any case not relating to civil or criminal proceedings as contemplated under subsection (1), an act that is willfully committed to interfere, obstruct or interrupt the due process of the administration of justice in relation to any court, or to lower the authority of a court, or to scandalize a judge, judicial officer in relation to any proceedings before the court, on any other manner constitutes contempt of court.