Breach of undertaking given to court amounts to contempt
Breach of an injuction or breach of any undertak- ing given to a Court by a person in civil proceedings on the faith of which the Court sanctions a particular course of action is misconduct amounting to contempt. [568F] The remedy in such circumstances may be in the form of a direction to the contemnor to purge the contempt or a sen- tence of imprisonment or time or all of them. [568F] When a court accepts an undertaking given by one of the parties and passes an order based on such undertaking, the order amounts in substance to an injunction restraining that party from acting in breach thereof. [568D] The breach of an undertaking given to the Court by or on behalf of a party to a civil proceeding is, therefore, regarded as tantamount to a breach of injunction although the remedies were not always identical. For the purpose of enforcing an undertaking that undertaking is treated as an
