A DIVORCE SUIT

Evening Star, Issue 20863, 5 August 1931, Page 6

A DIVORCE SUIT

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS FORBIDDEN THE RIGHTS OF A NEWSPAPER IPbb United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 5. Before evidence was called in a divorce suit set down for hearing before _ a jury in which Tom Asher is seeking the annulment of his marriage with Maata Asher, on the ground ol alleged misconduct, the Chief Justice, from the particulars supplied, said tho case came within section 55 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, and he made an order forbidding publication of any report or account of the evidence in the case, and said the order included the prohibition of the publication of any photograph or sketch of the parties or witnesses. Mention, however, could be made that tho case was being heard, and the names of tho parties could also be published. It well might be, continued His Honour, that no newspaper had the right to publish a photograph or a sketch of any person, be he a litigant or a witness, who had come to the court on business in with the administration of justice without the consent of the persons photographed. It might amount to contempt of court. “ 1 express no opinion upon the matter,’’ said His Honour,_ “ because 1 prefer to reserve my opinion until the matter comes before the court in proper form, as some day it seems to me it must do.”