NOT A SERVANT
COURT AND THE CROWN. jv* Dismissing a plea of privilege raised-',' on behalf of the Home Secretary. Sir r- : John .Gilmour, Mr Justice Macnagh-sJ ten declared that the Crown had n'd'tj right to intervene in a private suit;,«K The Court was not the servant of Crown, but was absolutely independent, •# he said. * 5 It had been claimed that the prodiic- | tion of a statement made to a police- ,f man would be against the public inter-VJ. est, but the judge called for the docu*'’ ' ment, and, after reading it himself, read it aloud, declaring that the contents were not injurious to the public interest. He added that it was an entirely novel claim that a prisoner’s statement to a policeman regarding an offence with which he was charged could be, produced in Court only by consent of A a Secretary of State. . V
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 4
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146NOT A SERVANT Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 4
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