SUPPRESSION OF NAMES
"PUBLIC ENTITLED TO KNOW" MAG ISTR ATE'S R EFU SAL The view thai the public Avas entitled to know what had been heard in Court, even at the preliminary hearing of an indictable charge. Was expressed by Mr W. H Woodward, S.M., at the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court, when an unusual application was madei for an interim order for the suppression of names of parties concerned 1 in an indictable prosecution, and, any evidence or other matters which might lead to the identification, of tin partiest concerned., reports the Taranaki Daily News. Mr A. A. Bennett., who appeared for the two a R used, in making, tb n application, asked that the order include prohibition of publication of any of the evidence, at least' until the preliminary hearing was con eluded. Refusing the application, the magistrate said he had: never had such an application madia to him before. The request was repeated later and. again refused/.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 302, 7 May 1941, Page 2
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