COURT PROCEEDINGS
BILL TO LIMIT REPORTS (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrign>. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 17. The House of Lords read a second time a Bill restricting the publication of reports of judicial proceedings to certain defined statement of fact and .penalising law-breakers to a term not exceeding three months’ imprisonment and a fine of £SOO. Lord Justice Darling, in moving the second reading, explained that the Bill aimed at preventing (he publication of mephitic details which sickened dec?nl~ mi,nded citizens. Lord Cave was unable to guarantee facilities for the passage of the Bill, but personally sympathised with its objects. *
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 July 1925, Page 5
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