Snapshotting: the Kins.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XII, 20 September 1902, Page 716

Snapshotting: the Kins.

An interesting point has been raised by the complaint of a photographer at a London Police Court that a detective had “jogged” his arm and prevented him snapshotting the King coming, out of Buckingham Palace. “In one sense,” said a well known barrister yesterday, “the man may have been breaking the law. There are, I believe, certain regulations as to taking photographs in the London parks, and the roadway outside Buckingham Palace may come under these regulations. “Beyond that, however, there is, as far as I know, no law whatever to prevent anybody photographing the king or anybody else. “In any case the detective had not the slightest right to ‘jog’ the man’s elbow, and the sufferer is entitled to a summons. The detective’s duty was to take the photographer’s name and address and proceed against him for any breach of regulations. Of course by that time he would have got his snapshot, but that cannot be helped.” •fc 4. 4.