LIBEL OR CONTEMPT.
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PRESS
(Per Press Association)
Wellington, May 18
Regarding the reporting of interlocutory proceedings, Mr. Justice Coon- (■!• said, during a ease yesterday: ''l might say, now that reporters are present, that it is a very dangerous thing; for newspapers to publish affidavits in interlocutory proceedings, which arc chamber matters." Proceeding, Mr. Justice Cooper said that reporters should not search the fdes and make tiie affidavits public before the matters really came before the Court. It war; very dangerous for the press to publish them. They did so at their own risk, and might he liable for contempt of Court or libel. Some years ago a paper had been successfully proceeded against in this connection.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 19, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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119LIBEL OR CONTEMPT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 19, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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