EVIDENCE IN DIVORCE CASE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 August 1931, Page 5

EVIDENCE IN DIVORCE CASE

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PUBLICATION FORBIDDEN REMARKS BY CHIEF JUSTICE (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Before evidence was called in a divorce suit set down for hearing before a jury, in which Tom Asher is seeking annulment of marriage with Maata Asher on the ground of alleged adultery, the Chief Justice, from particulars supplied, said the case came within section 55 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, and he made an order forbidding the publication of any report or account of tho evidence in the case, and said the order included prohibition of the publication of any photograph or sketch of the parties or witnesses. Mention, however, could be made that the case was being heard and the names of the parties could also be published. “It well might be,” continued his Honour, “that no newspaper had the right to publish a photograph or a sketch of any person, he he litigant, or witness, who had come to the Court on business in connection with the administration of justice without the consent of the persons photographed. It might amount to contempt of Court. I express . no.,,opinion upon tho matter,” said his Honour, “because I prefer to reserve my opinion until the matter comes before the Court in the proper form, as some day, it seems to me, it must do.”