COSTS AGAINST PUBLIC BODY
BYLAW PROSECUTION AT WELLINGTON COUNSEL AND MAGISTRATE (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. The unusual occurence of costs being allowed against a public body when a by-law prosecution was dismissed was witnessed in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. The case was a re-hearing, new evidence having become available in the case, in which Thomas Jones, a taxi driver, had been fined £3 and costs for driving in a negligent manner. When costs were allowed against the City Corporation, Mr Cooper, counsel for the Corporation, said: “Your Worship, I enter a formal protest.” 'Mr Luxford, S.M.: “Please do not use those terms in this Court. They are not becoming to the Bar. You have your remedy if you desire to take the matter further.” Mr Luxford said that he had allowed costs because two witnesses for the defendant, a conductor and a motofman, were corporation employees, who should have been interviewed and a statement taken before the prosecution was brought.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 9 October 1936, Page 5
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162COSTS AGAINST PUBLIC BODY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 9 October 1936, Page 5
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