“…e order is in effect, it is a contempt of court to disobey the order whether or not the court was right to make it in the first place: see e.g. M v Home Office [1992] QB 270, 298-299; Burris v Azadani [1995] 1 WLR 1372, 1381. In the present case, therefore, it is not open to the appellants to argue that they were not guilty of cont…”
“…ett J said at [19] “the general principle is that a court order…is valid and enforceable until it is set aside”. A striking example of this was M v Home Office [1992] QB 270, where the Home Secretary was held to be personally in contempt of court for not complying with a mandatory injunction which, because it was an interim injunct…”