EVIDENCE MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 184, 5 August 1931, Page 7

EVIDENCE MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED.

JUDGE MAKES ORDER IN A DIVORCE CLAIM. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 5. Before evidence was called in a divorce suit set down for hearing before a jury, in which Tom Asher is seeking the annulment of his marriage with Maata Asher on the ground of alleged adultery, the Thief Justice said that from the particulars supplied the case came within Section 55 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act. He made an order forbidding the publication of any report or account of the evidence in the case and said that the order included the prohibition of the publication of any photograph or sketch of the parties or witnesses. Mention, however, could be made that the ca.se wan being heard and the names of the parties could also be published. It well might be, continued his Honor, that no newspaper had a right to publish a photograph or a sketch of any person, be he litigant or witness, who had come to Court on business in connection with the administration of justice, without the consent of the persons photographed. It might, amount to contempt of Court. “ I express no opinion upon the matter,” said his Honor, “ because I prefer to reserve my opinion until the matter comes before the Court in proper form, as some day it seems to me it must do.”