NO CROWN PRIVILEGE.
Judge Dismisses Plea of Home Secretary. LONDON, November 24. Dismissing a plea of privilege raised on behalf of the Home Secretary, Sir John Gilmour, Mr Justice Macnaghten declared that the Crown had no right to intervene in a private suit. The Court was not the servant of the Crown, but was absolutely independent, he said. It had been claimed that the production of a statement made to a policeman would be against the public interest, but the Judge called for the document, and, after reading it himself, read it aloud, declaring that the contents were not injurious to the public interest. He added that it was an entirely novel claim that a prisoner's statement to a policeman regarding an offence \yth which he was charged could be produced in Court only by consent of a Secretary of State.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 1
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141NO CROWN PRIVILEGE. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 1
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