CONTRACT:the burning issue of privity of contract

The doctrine of privity of contract portrays that as a general rule a contract affects only the parties thereto and cannot be enforced by or against a person who is not a party to it.The doctrine stipulates that only parties to a contract can sue or be sued on the contract and a stranger to a contract can neither sue for his benefitand purports to give him the right to sue or make him liable upon it.Morever the fact that a person who is a stranger to the consideration of a contract stands in such a near relationship to the party from whom the consideration proceeds that he may be considered a party to the consideration does not entitle him to sue or be sued upon the contract.Though the doctrine of privity of contract admits exceptions

Contempt of court is any act or conduct which interferes with the course of justice, and tends to bring the authority and administration of law into disrespect. The twin elements of contempt of court are, therefore, interference and disrespect. Ezenwankwo v. State (2015). 2NWLR (Pt.1443) 265