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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/griffin-to-hear-contempt-verdict.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="BNP leader Nick Griffin will learn whether he has been found guilty of contempt of court" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-griffin-to-hear-contempt-verdict.jpg" alt="BNP leader Nick Griffin will learn whether he has been found guilty of contempt of court"/></a></p>
<p>BNP leader Nick Griffin learns on Friday whether he has been found guilty of contempt of court.</p>
<p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission accused him at the High Court of failing to comply with a county court judgment ordering the removal of potentially racist clauses from his party&#8217;s constitution.</p>
<p>Robin Allen QC, appearing for the watchdog, said the BNP was &#8220;playing with&#8221; the commission and its officials instead of obeying the judgment.</p>
<p>The commission asked Lord Justice Moore-Bick and Mr Justice Ramsey, sitting in London, to take action against Mr Griffin, BNP deputy Simon Darby and party officer Tanya Lumby.</p>
<p>It wants fines imposed, or possibly the sequestration of party assets.</p>
<p>At the time of the contempt application in November, Mr Griffin was in hospital with suspected kidney stones and was described by a BNP spokesperson as being &#8220;in extreme pain&#8221;.</p>
<p>The application stemmed from a ruling that the BNP constitution breached discrimination laws because of a clause banning non-white members.</p>
<p>The constitution underwent revision, but last March Judge Paul Collins ruled at Central London County Court that the new version was indirectly discriminatory against those of mixed-race, because it required party applicants to oppose &#8220;any form of integration or assimilation of &#8230; the indigenous British&#8221;.</p>
<p>Another section required new members to submit to a two-hour vetting visit at their home by BNP officials, which Judge Collins ruled could be seen as &#8220;intimidatory&#8221;.</p>
<p>The judge ordered both sections to be removed from the constitution.</p>
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