DIVORCE CASES
LONDON, August 21. At the Journalists’ Conference, Mr Phillips, editor of the Yorkshire Post, read a paper dealing with the decision of the Law Lords on the hearing of divorce cases in camera. It would, he urged, be ridiculous to allow novels dealing with the Divorce Court to narrate incidents rn grosser form than anything that the slackest of newspapers would publish, and to prohibit newspapers. Mr Phillips did not object to a severe restriction of newspaper reports, but it was also icary to apply the same censorship to novelists and playwrights. Mr Donald, of the Daily Chronicle, agreed with Mr Phillipis, and added that the greatest care was necessary in tho sub-editing of divorce cases.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 25
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118DIVORCE CASES Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 25
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