SUPPRESSION OF NAMES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21512, 29 June 1935, Page 19

SUPPRESSION OF NAMES

j | MAGISTRATE'S WARNING . j "I have nev'er in all my previous j years on the bench had 50 many opj plications for suppression of names as, ' I have had just recently," .said Mr E. iC. Levvev. S.M.. in the Magistrate's i Court ves'terday. in ravine, a warning | that he .>ni;:ht be forced to make a I r is 3 ic| rule never to suppre&s the names ot accused persons. The ease was one m which A4r x,.. S. J. Goodman was appearing for a youne man charged v.'ith theft lrom his ernplovers, and when Mr Gooutrum ! j.pplied for temporary suppression of j accused's name, the magistrate said the - rrnntinf/ of such an application was ] rmainst his neneral principles. "L a ipcr.on is innocent, the publication ot i his name does him. no harm, he saio. \ "If lie is miilty, it is ri;;ht that bis ■ name should be published. ! He said he would feel some day that ')he practice of applying for suppres- '■ .;i„n of names was beinß carried too ; far. He was reluctant to grant the 1 present application, but as he had rej eentlv granted previous applications i he would also grant the present one.