SUPPRESSING NAMES
NO DISGRACE TO GO TO COURT LONDON, August' 23. “ There is nothing disgraceful i i coming to a court of law that I know of—l have been doing it for thirty-five years,” observed Mr Justice Swift in the King’s Bench Division, when declining to accept a suggestion that certain names in a case should be mentioned by initials only. “ There is only one class of case that I know of in which names ought to be suppressed,” said His Lordship. “As a matter of course in blackmail prosecutions the names of the prosecutors ought to be suppressed, the object being that prosecutors should be encouraged to come forward, and not be. deterred, 1 ' He could see no reason why in a purely commercial case like the present; names should not be given freely, :
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Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 11
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135SUPPRESSING NAMES Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 11
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