SHORTHAND REPORTS.
"HANSARD" AND OTHERS. Tho reliability of different classes of shorthand reports was in question during the argument on the latest phase of the Massey v. "Now Zealand Times" libel action at tho Supreme Court yesterday. Mr. H. D. 8011, K.C., had mentioned that Mr. Justice Chapman, at tho trial, had refused to allow a copy of "Hansard" to be put in as evidence. Mr. Justice Chapman: Obviously, it should not bo allowed as evidence. "Hansard" undergoes a certain amount of preparation. You have been a member of Parliament yourself, and I daresay you have seeir that the speeches of some of your contemporaries, as they appeared in "Hansard," did uot correspond exactly with what was said. At another part of his argument, Mr. Bell read from a newspaper report of the trial an extract from the Judge's summing-up. This was objected to, and tho wording of tho official Court report was found to dicer in some respects from tho newspaper report. Tho Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) remarked that the newspapers usually left out what they regarded as "the dreary talk of a Judge."
Mr. Solomon, K.C.: They print only what they think will interest the public.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1126, 13 May 1911, Page 5
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199SHORTHAND REPORTS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1126, 13 May 1911, Page 5
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