From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 10:29:52 +0800
To: unicorn@schloss.li
Subject: Re: "Contempt" charges likely to increase
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From:	IN%"unicorn@schloss.li"  "Black Unicorn"  6-APR-1996 16:17:13.99

>I might add that the Cayman Islands are full of trust companies with 
>provisions which forbid the disclosure of data to a client who is 
>coerced.  A law on the books refuses to recognize "consent" orders made 
>under judicial compulsion.  This would give the appearance of total 
>unavailability of evidence and suggest the futility of contempt 
>charges.  Yet courts have still, and with no small measure of success, 
>imposed sanctions on witnesses so protected.

	What measure of success? Getting the data, or locking up the witness?
	-Allen