SUMMARISED REPORTS
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SYDNEY, June 22.
The Chief Justice (Sir Frederick Jordan) to-day in a Full. Court judgment defined the liability of newspapers which publish summarised versions of court proceedings leading to contempt of court. He said tjjat provided the summaries are fair and accurate, newspapers enjoy the same protection from contempt of court as do verbatim reports.
“As a general rule, courts cannot accommodate all who desire to hear the proceedings in certain cases,” he said. “Consequently the public has to depend on the newspapers for its reports, and so long as the published account is fair and accurate and in good faith and without malice nobody can complain. I hold further that a summary cannot be regarded as unfair by reason only of the fact that it has failed to draw attention to a feature to which no prominence was given before the Magistrate in the lower court.” The judgment arose out o’! an action against the “Daily Telegraph” by Richard Terrill, who complained that the published summary of court proceedings omitted to mention features favourable to him.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1937, Page 7
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