LAW OF CONTEMPT
RIGHTS OF PRESS
IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE IN NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY, June 16.
What is regarded in legal circles as an important principle relating to the law of contempt by newspapers was enunciated by the full Bench of the Supreme Court.
The Chief Justice of New South Wales, Sir Frederick Jordan, said:— "Discussion of public affairs and denunciation of public abuses, actual or supposed, cannot be required to be suspended merely because discussion or denunciation may, as an incidental, but not an intended, by-product, cause some likelihood of prejudice to a person who happens at the time to be a litigant."
The Court also approved the principle that it is a good answer if it ba proved to the satisfaction of the Court that a party alleged to have committed contempt was ignorant of litigation at the time of publication.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 9
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142LAW OF CONTEMPT Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 9
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