langer informed the media of the decision outside the courthouse and provided them with a copy of the neither! leaflet. a few days later he was summoned to appear on the charge of contempt for distributing the leaflet, with those same members of the media appearing as witnesses. consequently, he was sentenced to 10 weeks imprisonment for breaching the court injunction ordering him to stop advocating contrary to the electoral act. in march 1996, after widespread public outcry and media attention, the federal court reduced his sentence to three weeks, which he had already served in full.