CLAIMS PRIVILEGE
JUDGE’S COMMENT. (Per Press Association—Copyright). AUCKLAND. June 20. When called up by. counsel to read a statement which lie had taken in a case in which Rona ivy Carter claimed £4769 damages from J. R- Herring, with whose motor-ear' her husband, on his bicycle, was involved in an accident which caused fatal injuries. Constable Emery replied in the Supreme •Court to-day that he had been instructed to claim privilege.
Mr Justice Callao , interposed: ‘’l have said this before, and say- it” again, if the police are minded to raise this serious public question about those statements, this is not the way to do
His Honour added that lit would be a good tiling to have it settled in tile proper way. and this would be to put forward a claim for privilege. Ho was inclined to tliinlc that a higher authority than the Superintendent in Auckland had considered the matter, and thought that the Minister had. There ought to lie some statement of the basis of the claim. If it were brought- before him. the matter would receive every consideratoin. He was not saying that in this ease there was not some valid claim for privilege, but. if so, it had not been made.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1938, Page 5
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