The simple solution to this is for the witness that has been targeted by any legal proceedings to activate the dead man switch BEFORE any formal legal Court order is made.
This should be easy because the law is very slow and the deadman switch could be activated by phone in less than a minute.
Except in case of ex parte proceedings (where the targeted side is not there or given notice) the witness will have plenty of notice.
Even in the unusual case of an ex parte order, immediate activation of the dead man's switch will undermine the Court's jurisdiction over the witness and the fact that the witness is not actually 'in Court" makes a contempt of Court finding both legally problematic and practically difficult to enforce.
These sorts of orders are generally civil orders not criminal and don't have any international standing.
So the targeted witness can flip the dead man switch and legally leave the jurisdiction for good measure.
Hereabouts, in the United States of Shamerica, contempt orders enable jurists to indefinitely jail the subject until they agree to comply with whatever order of the court they are found in contempt of. I'm unaware of anyone that has been held captive more than a year in this way, but there's literally no limit I know of.
In the OP above, the court order was enforced the day the order was issued. I think you're probably right, that acting prior to such an order is the only way to avoid being held in contempt.
Thanks!
Damn. This along with Civil Asset Forfeiture really flies in the face of the whole land of the free stuff...