A contempt of court hearing involving the far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been adjourned.

The Old Bailey judge wants to receive written submissions before making a ruling at a later date.

The former leader of the English Defence League was freed from prison on bail last month, after winning an appeal to his 13-month jail sentence.

The Recorder of London, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC, was due to consider allegations that Robinson “published a matter which is likely to cause contempt of court” during ongoing trials in Leeds.

Robinson, 35, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was originally jailed for 13 months after broadcasting a live Facebook video outside Leeds Crown Court in May.

A judge ruled he was in contempt and had breached the conditions of a suspended prison sentence given to him for a separate contempt offence outside Canterbury Crown Court last year.

Robinson was freed last month after The Court of Appeal found that procedural failings by the judge who jailed Robinson for 13 months “gave rise to unfairness” and meant proceedings were “fundamentally flawed”.

But it ordered a rehearing, saying the “alleged contempt was serious and the sentence might be longer than that already served”.

Robinson is also again accused of breaching the conditions of the three-month suspended sentence he was handed for the Canterbury contempt.

On that occasion, in May 2017, he filmed defendants outside Canterbury Crown Court in the middle of a rape trial.

Attempts to quash that conviction were rejected by The Court of Appeal, which said criticism by Robinson’s legal team “had no substance”.