JUDICIAL IGNORANCE
"JUDGES MUST NOT KNOW.” “ A judge is expected not to know anything. Everybody in court would be disappointed if,' when 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 tiie 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. They claimed that the shipping company bad a duty to point out that castor beaus were poisonous. Judgment was given for the shipowners with costs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21627, 23 April 1932, Page 14
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125JUDICIAL IGNORANCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21627, 23 April 1932, Page 14
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