Kem, who was not in court, was convicted of twice ignoring summons to answer questions relating to a case involving his alleged mistress.
As it stands, many people ignore summons or do not understand them, which causes them to miss court dates or not pay fines or even plea guilty to offences unnecessarily, which can lead to a stint to jail.
Distin ignored a summons to appear in court and flew to Crete for a holiday days before the June 30 hearing.
Judge Napela Saintil said a warrant for the arrest of the chief, Inspector General Michael Lucius, was now in the hands of a prosecutor because he had ignored a summons.
MPs learned sanctions for contempt against the House could include a jail term as they demanded to know what could happen if the Murdochs also ignored the summons.
This was all before prosecutors put Fillon under formal investigation for misuse of public funds (according to allegations, he paid his wife and children parliamentary salaries for work they never did) and arrested several close associates of Le Pen (who ignored a summons to testify about a fake-jobs scandal of her own).
It is in this total vacuum of opportunity, human rights, law and order that Hor Namhong – the Cambodian foreign minister who ignored a summons to appear before the Khmer Rouge tribunal after he was accused by a witness of running of a re-education camp – is considering an Australian request to grant refuge to some of our asylum-seekers.
In 1798, a warrant was issued for Boone's arrest after he ignored a summons to testify in a court case, although the sheriff never found him.
Mr Sam Rainsy, for his part, is ignoring his summons.
Nigel Mason Hitchin, Hertfordshire Incarcerate the Murdochs and others in Westminster's clocktower if they ignore a summons from MPs (Comment, 18 July)?
Masked agents seized Mr. Khodorkovsky on a Siberian runway last Saturday after prosecutors accused him of ignoring a summons that, Mr. Drel said, he never received.
