COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 22 September 1936, Page 7

COURT NEWS

GISBORNE LOAN APPEAL CASE.

PRIVILEGE QUESTION

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 21

In placing the case for the respondent before the Court of Appeal in the ease Rodda and others v. Lunken, in which objection was taken to producing for inspection certain documents, on the ground that they were State documents and privileged, Air. L. T. Burnard made the following submissions: — (.1) That the classification decision put forward for appellants was based on an unsound principle and that the distinctions put forward in that classification were not supported by eases. (2) That the production was generally granted, the Crown’s privilege being narrow, not perhaps completely defined, but not to be extended 1 beyond precedents. (3) That there was inherent power in the Court to inspect documents at any time. (4) That the order for inspection made in the present case-, could' bo supported on the ground taken in the judgment of trial Judge Reed, that the objection had merely been taken to document as a class, without showing that particular documents had been read and considered. That the opportunity which the Judge had given appellants' of submitting for -the inspection of the Court any documents which they objected to produce was in accordance with decided eases. The Court reserved decision. INTOXICATED DRIVER. WANGANUI, September 21. Peter Rzoska, for being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car, was fined £25, and his license was cancelled for five years. Mr' Salimo.n, S.AIp said that he. adopted this course in view of the fact that defendant had an invalid wife and four young children. MAORI CAR CONVERTER. GISBORNE, September 21. A sentence of ono month’s imprisonment on each of tw,o charges of converting and attempting to convert motor-cars to- his own use. was passed by Mr Walton, S.M., this morning, on Matn Kore Noanoa. Counsel pj’ead-ed that Noanoa was so helplessly drunk at the time that he did not know what he. was doing. On the charge of damaging two benches in a police cell, accused was ordered in pay 20s damages.