DIVORCE PUBLICITY.
A BILL TO RESTRICT. SALACIOUS DETAILS. HEAVY PENALTIES BOUGHT. (By cable—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 31. Tie Right Hon. Evelyn Cecil, P.O. (Aston divieion of Birmingham), has introduced bis bill into the House of Commons for the restriction of divorce reports, prohibiting indecent matter or medical, surgical, or physiological details calculated to injure public morals.
The newspaper reports on matrimonial cases must be confined to names, addressee, and descriptions of parties, . names of ■witnesses, grounds on which . the proceedings are brought, and the judicial summing up to the jury, the findings of the judges, and their observations -while giving judgment. ~ - The penalties proposed for breaches of the law are imprisonment for three months and a fine of £500. The committee's report says that the pernicious transformation of sordid stories into epics for profit cannot be . ; restrained -without legislation. flaunt- ' fog immorality before readers of all ages is injurious to public morals.—(A. and SX Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 1 August 1923, Page 5
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158DIVORCE PUBLICITY. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 1 August 1923, Page 5
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