DEFENDANT REBUKED BY MAGISTRATE
® A defendant who made several uncomplimentary remarks about Mr R. T. Bailey, who prosecuted for the Labour Department in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, received a sharp rebuke from the magistrate, Mr H. P. La wry. The defendant was Harry Walter Benson Jacobs, who faced 12 |f charges of failure to pay the unem--11 ployment levy. He began by asking it whether the proceedings were to be o a light or an expression of truth, when 0 Mr Bailey cross-examined him. The , magistrate asked him to remember where he was. Later Jacobs remarked o that he and Mr Bailey were not the it best of friends. When he complained that he had "not had wonderful treatmerit" from Mr Bailey, the magistrate warned him that such statements could not be allowed in court. The magis- " trate threatened 'to double the fine im d posed upon Jacobs. •r
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21256, 30 August 1934, Page 4
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