JUDICIAL IGNORANCE.
" JUDGES MUST NOT KNOW."
" A judge is expected not to know anything. Everybody in court would be disappointed if, wiien the name of the bestknown actress was mentioned, the judge did not inquire who she was," remarked Mr. Justice MacKinnon in a London court recently. The judge admitted, however, that he did not know that castor beans were dangerous. This was during an action in which a firm of grain merchants sued the Union Castle Mail Steamship ■ Company for damages. Plaintiffs bought mixed sweepings from a cargo of grain and castor beans _ and six of their horses died. Ihev claimed that the shipping company had a duty to point out that castor beans were pois onous. Judgment was given for the shipowners with costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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126JUDICIAL IGNORANCE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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